Quotes About Violence

So long as men slaughter animals,' the master said, 'they won't stop killing each other.'1 [KONOPI?TE]

The day after, bloody revolutions seem always to disappoint, and in the scramble to the top, those with the most blood on their hands seem always to get there first.

True, the annals of humankind appear rife with violence. But, Gandhi contended, this was an optical illusion fostered by scribes and scholars who, by virtue of their profession, took note of the exceptions to the rule: "History is really a record of every interruption of the even working of the force of love or of the soul."3

In that thoroughly evil and violent and depraved culture, there was no hope for those children. This nation was so polluted that it as like gangrene that was taking over a person's leg, and God had to amputate the leg or the gangrene would spread and there wouldn't be anything left. In a sense, God's action was an act of mercy.

If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

War is a profane thing.

A criminal cannot complain about wrongs done him because one treats him harshly and inhumanely. His offense was an entry into the realm of violence, power and tyranny. There is no restraint and proportion in that realm, and therefore he should not be surprised at the disproportion of its counter-reaction.

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

Yakmal? bu mektuplar?, yakmal?! Ölü diller uzman?n? ve bu konuda görü?tü?üm herkesi öldürmeli! Hayalimde daha önce çok insan öldürmü? oldu?um için bu son ölümler beni fazla sarsmad?. Nedense, bu arada gizli mezhebin üyelerim de öldürmeyi dü?ünmüyordum. Bu dü?üncelerimi ö?renmelerinden bile korkuyordum.

Adam kap?y? açt?, içeri girdi ve tabancas?n? ç?kararak ate? etti.

Bizim gibiler ancak oyunlarda ölür. Bizim gibiler dü?ünceleri yüzünden ölmez. Her zaman 'millet birbirini öldürür.' Biz sadece seyrederiz onlar?.

The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

To Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.

Yes, there are some backs on the street which cry for the knife.

Look here, before you and around you! There is not a grain of sand that has not been bathed in blood, and what is that grain of sand itself, if not the dust of death? But how rich this blood is, and how fertile is the dust!

murder is born of love and love attains the greatest intensity in murder

Tp Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.

C'est que les grands assassins ont toujours été des amoureux terribles... Leur puissance génésique correspond à leur puissance criminelle... Ils aiment comme ils tuent!

We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that's the way things are. That's the way things always have been.

The thing is, we hear gunfire so much that we don't hear it.

I sat where I was, more depressed than ever, hating the whole hopeless, stupid business and wondering whether the human species would ever grow up enough to learn to communicate without using fists of one kind or another.