Quotes About Violence

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

My business is hurting people.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are killed for a piece of change or because somebody looks at somebody wrong.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

No good Indian but a dead Indian

Freedom is really not about possessing anything, but is actually being without; without hatred, without clinging, violence, greed, and so on. Losing everything you've managed to accumulate until what's always been there remains.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

I love everybody. Some I love to be around. Some I love to avoid. And others I love to punch in the face.

I'm not a jealous person. I'm just a girl that would love to punch every other girl in the face that gives you a second look.

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Everyone has violence in themselves. I'm violent.

Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their mystery had been discharged and the sexual power they instilled in him had dulled... Women were his prey. He was the Minotaur. These were bloody, indecent bullfights from which he always emerged the dazzling victor.

Britain was the last developed country where beating schoolchildren was respectable. This was outlawed last year [1988] - by one vote in Parliament. Parents are now almost the last people left who can hit children without fear of penalty, as long as it's moderate and fitting punishment...the language of authority still derives from violence, mistakenly, tragically.

To paraphrase Jesus from The Big Lebowski, 'I'm going to shove this gun up her ass and pull the trigger until it goes click.

How many of these guys do you think we gotta kill before we can go home?" O'Brien whispered. "I'm pretty sure it's all of them," I answered. "Too bad they don't stay in one place. This war would be over that much sooner if everyone cooperated.

Cuando la guerra se disfraza de paz, es la peor de las paces.

Cuando la guerra se disfraza de paz, es la peor de las paces. Invade como ayuda, pero deja cenizas por donde pasa y muertes por doquier. La paz se vuelve hipócrita, los mansos no le sirven. Agrede a los otoños y les pisa las hojas. Y por si fuera poco, su razón de ser tiende a la sinrazón.

Los tiranos y los déspotas suelen tener la costumbre de torturar, invadir y asesinar. Hay

el miedo a las situaciones violentas es el que mayor inquietud me produce.

Los que a sabiendas hieren y matan y torturan, se creen fieles lacayos de la muerte, pero esos imbéciles no saben que, desde tiempo inmemorial, la parquísima inmola a sus lacayos. Cuando

Oh, I should like to ride the seas, A roaring buccaneer; A cutlass banging at my knees, A dirk behind my ear. And when my captives' chains would clank I'd howl with glee and drink, And then fling out the quivering plank And watch the beggars sink. I'd like to straddle gory decks, And dig in laden sands, And know the feel of throbbing necks Between my knotted hands. Oh, I should like to strut and curse Among my blackguard crew....

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.