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Quotes About Violence

The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no life in war; there is life only in peace.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
He had no liking for war. It was a loud, messy, dangerous business.
~ Melanie Rawn
Then I remember I'd always been told, 'If a fellow's got so little manhood he'd hit a woman, it's up to that woman to relieve him of what few morsels of his masculinity remain.' I bent my knee and jammed my foot backward, up his crotch.
~ Unknown
Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.
~ Melina Marchetta
We have arsonists.
~ Melina Marchetta
Before I can finish, he turns away and sits down, his back to me, as if I was never there. I stare at the back of his head. There's something about it that makes me want to commit a violent act with a blunt instrument.
~ Melina Marchetta
Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength from. But it wasn't Anna who was bashing Greg Sim's face on the ground. It was Jacob Coote.
~ Melina Marchetta
I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.
~ Melissa Marr
The reality was that while they might have eternity, there was violence on the horizon. And in the present. She wasn't intending on ignoring it. She couldn't. But she wasn't going to ignore them either. Just kiss me, ---." A look of hesitation crossed his face, but he didn't push her away. He swept her legs from under her and lifted her into his arms. " -Darkest Mercy (p 28)
~ Melissa Marr
Violence is not synonymous for any resolution; but rather a step that hinders the coexistence of a peaceful society; for! peace leads humanity to the emergence land.
~ Unknown
A diferença entre a Guerra e a Paz é a seguinte: na Guerra, os pobres são os primeiros a serem mortos; na Paz os pobres são os primeiros a morrer. Para nós, mulheres, há ainda uma outra diferença: na Guerra, passamos a ser violadas por quem não conhecemos.
~ Mia Couto
Besides, wars never begin. When we awaken to them, we realise they started long ago.
~ Mia Couto
Que a bala do corpo se retire Num disparo ao avesso se desvire e o sangue aberto se arrependa e retorne ao leito de onde escorreu Que, enfim, a espingarda seja morta e se escreva na campa deste tempo: - Aqui jaz a bala sentenciada por mandato da vida contra o Homem.
~ Mia Couto
The difference between war and peace is as follows: in war, the poor are the first to be killed; in peace, the poor are the first to die. For us women, there's another difference too: in war, we get raped by those we do not know.
~ Mia Couto
E pergunto: por que nos ensinaram essa merda de sermos humanos? Seria melhor sermos bichos, tudo instinto. Podemos violar, morder, matar. Sem culpa, sem juízo, sem perdão. A desgraça é esta: só uns poucos aprenderam a lição da humanidade.
~ Mia Couto
La guerra no pide armas. Es al contrario: las armas hacen nacer la guerra.
~ Mia Couto
A guerra é uma cobra que usa os nossos próprios dentes para nos morder.
~ Mia Couto