Quotes About Violence
Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear. As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us
~ Octavia E. Butler
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I saw a woman die in childbirth once," he said. I nodded. "I never saw it, but I kept hearing about it happening. It was pretty common back then, I guess. Poor medical care or none at all." "No, medical care had nothing to do with the case I saw. This woman's master strung her up by her wrists and beat her until the baby came out of her—dropped onto the ground.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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You're supposed to be dirty now. If you're clean, you make a target of yourself. People think you're showing off, trying to be better than they are. Among the younger kids, being clean is a great way to start a fight.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Kevin, you don't have to beat people to treat them brutally." "Wait a minute," he said. "I'm not minimizing the wrong that's being done here. I just …" "Yes you are. You don't mean to be, but you are.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Kevin, você não precisa bater nas pessoas para tratá-las com brutalidade.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Rape, robbery, and now murder. Of course I think about it. Everyone thinks about it. Everyone worries. I wish I could get out of here.' 'Where would you go?' 'That's it, isn't it? There's nowhere to go.' 'There might be.' 'Not if you don't have money. Not if all you know how to do is take care of babies and cook.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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The penalty for being too poor to be worth robbing is a beating, a rape, and/or death.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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one is…a major key to us, to human beings, I mean. When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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When men have absolute power over women who are strangers, the men rape.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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I had only to move my fingers a little a jab them into the soft tissues, gouge away his sight and give him more agony than he was giving me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
~ Ogden Nash
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People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
~ Ogden Nash
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Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.
~ Unknown
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
~ Oliver Stone
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
~ Oliver Stone
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Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses and there will never be another war on the face of the earth.
~ Oliver Stone
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
~ Olivia Thirlby
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Les vagues sont hautes ce soir. Elles me frappent, me rouent de coups, s'abattent sur moi avec toute la brutalité nécessaire. À cet instant c'est exactement ce que j'attends d'elles. Qu'elles m'assomment. Me foutent la tête sous l'eau.
~ Unknown
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Les djihadistes ont massacré les innocents et entendent désormais tuer l'amour.
~ Unknown
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No entiendo a esta humanidad que degüella a los pueblos y perdona a los déspotas Robespierre
~ Unknown
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
~ Oriana Fallaci
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La guerra è un infanticidio in massa, rinviato di vent'anni.
~ Oriana Fallaci
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To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.
~ Oriana Fallaci
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