Quotes About Violence

Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately.

I bonked his head against the edge of the hatch and yanked the damaged weapon away.

We needed to find out where the refugees were now, if they were either a) murderees or b) murderers.

Target Two accidentally (I'm guessing here; maybe they just didn't care for each other) stabbed Target One.

I'd tell you to be careful, but…" Kai looked at her through the black film of the veil. "You could say 'be violent' instead." Tahren, who Kai was beginning to suspect had a very dry sense of humor, patted his shoulder and said, Be violent.

I choked her until she was unconscious and then broke her arm to give her something else to worry about if she revived too soon. I didn't take her projectile weapon but I did pause to break a couple of its key components.

And I had to kill the rest of the Targets in the extremely painful ways I'd been visualizing.

Just clients. And if anyone or anything tried to hurt them, I would rip its intestines out.

Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately. Of the many times I had been shot, a depressingly large percentage of hits had come from clients who were trying to "help" me.

If you bother her again I will break every individual bone in your hand and arm. It will take about an hour.")

I'm a shut up or get your head smashed.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment. Until then, America thought she was witnessing nothing more serious than the worst aviation disaster in history; now she had a sense of the fantastic vehemence ranged against her.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.

has been founded on a good beating.

The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit him with his head against the wall, once, twice, smashed him against the wall.

in towns and villages throughout the Ukraine, several thousand Jews were being murdered by anti-Bolshevik Whites, whose historic anti-Semitism, combining with a new hatred of the noted Jewish presence among the Bolshevik leadership, renewed the violent pogroms of a decade and a half earlier.

Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people's rights as well as their ambitions.

If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded before the guns fell silent. Every army believed that it could crush its opponents within a few months.

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.

When Schrank approached Roosevelt, a quick-thinking bystander deflected the gunman's hand and probably saved the ex-president's life. After the incident, the crowd attempted to lynch Schrank, but Roosevelt calmed the mob. He yelled, "Don't hurt the poor creature!" as police hauled Schrank away.

Therefore let us avoid these men of blood and not allow them to draw us into Judaism.