Quotes About Violence

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

O filme que estamos a fazer vai mostrar como o deserto é bonito, mas temo que tudo o resto não seja visível: este cansaço extremo, o massacre das pistas, a violência de tudo isto e também esta fabulosa, incompreensível, indizível viagem ao fundo de nós mesmos.

By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we not try to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

As long as a significant segment of society has few opportunities to encounter meaningful challenges, and few chances to develop the skills necessary to benefit from them, we must expect that violence and crime will attract those who cannot find their way to more complex autotelic experiences.

Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Much of what we label juvenile delinquency—car theft, vandalism, rowdy behavior in general—is motivated by the same need to have flow experiences not available in ordinary life. As long as a significant segment of society has few opportunities to encounter meaningful challenges, and few chances to develop the skills necessary to benefit from them, we must expect that violence and crime will attract those who cannot find their way to more complex autotelic experiences.

Unfortunately, many people find the only challenges they can respond to are violence, gambling, random sex, or drugs. Some of these experiences can be enjoyable, but these episodes of flow do not add up to a sense of satisfaction and happiness over time. Pleasure does not lead to creativity, but soon turns into addiction—the thrall of entropy.

immediately horrified at what I had done, for it is not correct for a pupil to hit his tutor, even

Ufthak nutted him, and Deffrow sat down rapidly, involuntarily, and in a state of some confusion.

The car bomb is the poor man's air force.

You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now.

The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection.

I began to think a joke was not truly good unless someone got hit for telling it.

Cry Wolf' is a hard-boiled thriller written at break-neck pace of political corruption and organised, very violent crime.

Probably cut off his balls and force him to eat them." I stated as a mere fact.

Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town...Polacks would stomp on you...Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards.

I love to hit people. I love to.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that's my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize: "Violence has no way to conceal itself except by lies, and lies have no way to maintain themselves except through violence. Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories.

They were shot. All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories.

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...

There is an underbelly of terror to all life. It is suffering, it is hurt. Deep within all of us are intense fears that have left few of us whole. Life's terrors haunt us, attack us, leave ugly cuts. To buffer ourselves, we dwell on beauty, we collect things, we fall in love, we desperately try to make something lasting in our lives. We take beauty as the only worthwhile thing in this existence, but it cannot veil cursing, violence, randomness, and injustice.

Weapons are tools of ill omen Wielded by the ignorant.