Quotes About Violence

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

we believe there are very few of the world's problems we could not solve with high explosive or a well-aimed bullet.

if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

Let us never yield to those who believe political power flows from the barrel of a gun, to

So, Abe's blood was spattered all over the walls of his office." Quinn traced a hand down the doorframe and looked at him meaningfully. "You might want to consider whether you really want the same people to come looking for you." He smiled without warmth as he made a business card appear. "Call me when you get it through your head that you're in danger.

He'd died before she moved to Chicago, but she'd followed the story of his shooting with the same queasy horror as the killings of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner.

A gunfight in a graveyard, Jesus Christ.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

The war continues with no sign that it will end [...]. It's like an avalanche, started by a single gunshot, but which roars down the mountain more loudly than a thousand canons.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Laws are silent in time of war.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

In times of war, the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma

God, if she considered it, seemed awfully cruel and violent, blowing people's houses down, washing out the coastline. Such a God, Allison was sure, would have to be a man, and not a particularly nice one.

"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine.... "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said.... Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Dennis hit him with the [Sheri] Tepper. It was a hardback book, six hundred pages of wonder and adventure and a little preachiness mixed in.

Her mind raced with millions of violent and spectacular thoughts and ideas and in the centre of herself, she stored a passion which might terrify people if they suspected it.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.