Quotes About Violence

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence ... my government will ensure there is complete freedom of faith.