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Quotes About Violence

Why, he'd kill a fella soon's he'd look at him. We got to keep these here people down or they'll take the country. They'll take the country. Outlanders, foreigners.
~ John Steinbeck
Mac, who in hell are these vigilantes, anyway? What kind of guys are they?" "Why, they're the dirtiest guys in any town. They're the same ones that burned the houses of old German people during the war. They're the same ones that lynch Negroes. They like to be cruel. They like to hurt people, and they always give it a nice name, patriotism or protecting the constitution. But they're just the old nigger torturers working.
~ John Steinbeck
Nenhuma tribo selvagem, nenhum invasor foi alguma vez responsável pelas crueldades estúpidas e deliberadas dos alemães, que arrasaram a Ucrânia como crianças cruéis e frenéticas.
~ John Steinbeck
The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. We want to cure the world of the sickness of violence, malcontent, and discord—this is the Way of Harmony. There is evil and disorder in the world because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
~ Unknown
this country since 1865 has an unenviable record for political violence. Four presidents, plus the attempts on Truman and both Roosevelts—as you know, Teddy was actually wounded, in his unsuccessful campaign in 1912—not to mention Huey Long. There isn't a country west of the Balkans with any kind of the same record. The Prime Ministers of England go everywhere with a single bodyguard.
~ John Updike
Nature kills constantly, and we call her beautiful.
~ John Updike
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.
~ Johnny Depp
Coming to our senses involves cultivating an overarching awareness of all our senses, including our own minds, and their limitations, including the temptation when we feel deeply insecure and have a lot of resources, to try to control as rigidly and as tightly as possible all variables in the external world, an impossible and ultimately depleting, intrinsically violent
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His." Supposedly said when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics.)
~ Unknown
No one hurts my family and lives
~ Elijah
I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.
~ Rosie Batty
My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.
~ Tupac Shakur
How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?
~ Tupac Shakur
Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.
~ Rosie Batty
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
~ Leslie Morgan Steiner
Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.
~ Shaun Wright-Phillips
My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.
~ Laurie Notaro
Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.
~ Conan O'Brien
One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.
~ Unknown
Nothing nice happens to murdered women.
~ Richard Kadrey
I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
~ Stephen King
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
~ Marilyn Manson
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
~ Pat Conroy