Quotes About Violence

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

We all seek peace. Yet in the name of peace, some are prepared to wage wars!

I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullsh... Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Being upset is no reason for a man to put his hands on you.

Yes, indeed, if some of these boys are a bit soft and chicken-hearted and hesitate, they shoot them immediately, a dozen bullets through the skin and that's that. In a way it's got to be done and what does it matter to the officers? They get their pesetas all the same and that's all they care about.

Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

Pienso que todo ser humano tiene una infinita y callada capacidad para ejercer la violencia, quiéralo o no. Las máscaras ayudan, cubren, tapan, disimulan, pero no la eliminan. Lo que hacen las guerras y las dictaduras es levantar esas máscaras y poner tal virtualidad de manifiesto, permitiendo que aflore en un esplendor desatado; la impunidad lo permite.

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head. Sheri—one

I gazed out the window and wished for the thousandth time that rape were punishable by penis removal… with a rusty knife.

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head.

Every day, three women are murdered by their male partners.

Their children had been killed in a school bus accident. Or, more likely, a school shooting.

Boys who see their fathers beat their mothers will likely grow up to be men who beat their wives.

Twice as many women were murdered by current or former male partners between 2001 and 2012 as there were troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

An ax killing in itself is rare—but an ax killing by a woman is rarer than a Republican at an NPR fund-raiser.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you.