Quotes About Violence

In 757, having ruled for forty-one years, he was killed by his own bodyguard

this year,' says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 794, 'Offa, king of the Mercians, had Æthelberht beheaded.

According to another contemporary author, writing in the 970s, the king ordered that thieves and robbers were to be punished by having their eyes put out, their ears ripped off, their nostrils carved open and their hands and feet removed, before being scalped and left in the open fields at night to be eaten by wild beasts and birds.

The attackers rounded off their successful mission by destroying the viking fleet,

With both Cynewulf and Cyneheard dead, and many of their men with them,

assaulted and robbed, and many of his companions were killed.

He destroyed the pagans with great slaughter,' says Asser,

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...

Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. His birth took place during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune

See with what heat these Dogs of Hell advance To waste and havoc yonder World.

Arm'd with Hell flames and fury all at once

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

For what can war but endless war still breed? - Sonnet 15

Our own statistics about violence, depression, drug abuse, divorce, and crime indicated that although ours was one of the wealthiest societies in history, it may also be one of the least happy societies. Why would we want others to emulate us?

on December 20, 1989, the United States attacked Panama with what was reported to be the largest airborne assault on a city since World War II.6 It was an unprovoked attack on a civilian population. Panama and her people posed absolutely no threat to the United States or to any other country. Politicians, governments, and press around the world denounced the unilateral U.S. action as a clear violation of international law.

In 1994, eight hundred thousand people were massacred in Rwanda," Fontana said. "Mostly by having an arm hacked off by a machete and being left to die.

What drove these human killing machines?

She wasn't sure what Mississippi was, but it must be a horrible thing if it was used as a mantra for the guns

The U.S. started to go downhill when it changed from a round designed to kill our enemies to one designed to piss them off.

He was clearly a man who had never seen a bigger gun he didn't like.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things.

Got Hollow Points?" Another said: "Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed." A third one: "Point and Click . . . means you're out of ammo.

If a Martian were watching our television shows, he'd conclude that guns were more common than hammers. They're not evil themselves--they're tools--but everywhere you go, bad people have them. It behooves the righteous to at least know how they work.

We ain't in California no more," Pilate said. "Every fuckin' body up here's got a gun. Even that old lady in the hamburger shop, shot Michelle.