Quotes About Violence

Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish. It is one of the chief roles of etiquette to keep the lid on the violence which the meal being eaten presupposes.

The Little War? How can there be a little war? Are some deaths smaller than others, leaving mothers who weep a little less?

every time a bomb exploded, every anti-personnel weapon that sent its hundreds of particles tearing through the sift tissues of soft bodies, every helicopter that was shot down with its crew, every plane hit with a missile: brrrring, brrrring, on the great cash register in the homeland bank. It was all profit. It would have to be replaced. It was the perfect form of fantastically expensive and forced consumption, paid for by taxes.

When he's not lynching you, he's humiliating you, said the men at the dinner table. They

Most scholars now put the number of people killed for the crime of witchcraft from the late fifteenth century through the seventeenth century at between forty and fifty thousand

But who's ever safe? Down below us are the kind of people who walk armed into churches and movie theaters and through libraries, blast fevers into federal buildings, and build bombs out of things they bought cheap at a hardware store. What kind of myth is it, that people like them are keeping the rest of us safe?

Grendel hurt, and so he hunted.

Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything.

Don't let the violence of your past blind you from the peace in your present. Lutti

Violent love eats up what it does love, and is mere appetite.

You talked once of bodily dignity.' 'I've seen heads shot off.

Violent love eats up what it does love, and it is mere appetite. I scribbled on the bottom of this before sending it back: I would sooner cut my own flesh than do you a hurt. You should not have tried to get between us! But only come to see me, and another time I will stand and let me beat to a mummy.

By focusing on the male violence against women, coming to the surface in rape, and by trying to make this a public issue, feminists have unwittingly touched one of the taboos of civilised society, namely that this is a 'peaceful society'. … The very fact that rape has now become a public issue had helped to tear the veil from the facade of so-called civilised society and has laid bare its hidden, brutal, violent foundations.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Killing her and the boys had not been the best way to resolve the custody dispute.

A man kills enough. A woman keeps on walking.

El cuerpo acusa la agresión antes que el cerebro, que se niega a ver lo que no consigue comprender.

What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.

All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Which is colder, the hand or the gun?

There were no fear of death in children's eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.