Quotes About Violence

vivimos en un mundo asediado por nuevas formas de violencia de baja intensidad pero de gran impacto.

Corruption and defection are common in Mexico, but the Zetas elevated it to a new scale.

Money has always been one motivation to take up arms

CLEANTE. Spoke like a true young man. Now just calm down, And moderate your towering tantrums, will you? We live in such an age, with such a king, That violence can not advance our cause.

C'est un méchant moyen de se faire aimer de quelqu'un que de lui faire violence.

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

I wished there had been obvious signs of destruction on all of us kids: bruises or burn marks, something that indicated how violent our house was, but words and neglect don't leave visible marks. And that confuses even the person who knows better. (169)

As usual, there were no obvious signs. And it would be a secret that my boyfriend had punched me in the face and terrorized me with a rifle for two and half hours - because it was more important that Mom keep up appearances than keep her children safe.

He manipulated love into something perverse, confusing me about what love is, causing me to sexualize friendships and relationships, teaching me without words that I was worth. Violence would have been more honest

En même temps, il perçoit soudain avec acuité ce qu'il est en train de perdre, une accalmie dans sa vie hérissée de violence, quelques heures de trève pour s'assoupir un peu, à vrai dire pas grand chose, juste de quoi rendre l'existence supportable.

Elas dizem que aprenderam a contar com a própria força. Dizem que sabem o que significa estarem juntas. Dizem que aquelas que reivindicam uma nova língua primeiro se deparam com a violência. Dizem que aquelas que querem transformar o mundo primeiro se apoderam de fuzis. Dizem que começam do zero. Dizem que um novo mundo está surgindo.

How many Americans lives have been lost in this brutal and needless war? How many Iraqi? How many names do we know on either side?

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

Males are simple creatures. If we can't f**k it, we want to kill it.

War always brings death and destruction and that can never be a good thing

I enjoyed being in the military when I was a young man, but even then I innately felt that war is never the solution to any problem. War always brings death and destruction and that can never be a good thing.

There is nothing in the world more harmful than war and more foolish than armament

Killing is the payoff of war.

Ottoman Empire. "The West," writes Huntington, "won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion…but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do."29

Why do people start wars when they know so many sad things are going to happen?

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

Please choose the way of peace…In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.