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Quotes About Violence

The worst violence was reserved for the Jews. There were 690 documented pogroms -- with over 3,000 reported murders -- during the two weeks following the deceleration of the October Manifesto. The Rightist groups played a leading role in these programs, either by inciting the crowed against the Jews or by planning them from the start.
~ Orlando Figes
A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
~ Orson Scott Card
Finally, under Mao Zedong the project of destroying the old core of Chinese identity was carried to a grim conclusion with a violent and totalistic resolve. But, like a forest fire that clears the way for new growth, it may have ironically also helped prepare the way to usher in a spectacular new kind of economic growth under his successor, Deng Xiaoping.
~ Unknown
If inciting people to do that [9/11] is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.
~ Osama bin Laden
We, God willing, will continue to fight you and will continue martyrdom operations inside and outside the United States until you abandon your oppression and foolish acts.
~ Osama bin Laden
O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results.
~ Osama bin Laden
We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before.
~ Osama bin Laden
I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.
~ Osama bin Laden
We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
~ Osama bin Laden
During the course of my life I have wished innumerable times that I might meet with a violent death, but I have never once desired to kill anybody. I thought that in killing a dreaded adversary I might actually be bringing him happiness.
~ Osamu Dazai
There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes. And the more nervous they are -the quicker to take fright- the more violent they pray that every storm will be...
~ Osamu Dazai
We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.
~ Unknown
In England Ö education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
~ Oscar Wilde
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
~ Oscar Wilde
One by one forging his laws, to be flungLike horseshoes at the head, the eye, or the groin.And every killing is a treatFor the broad-chested Ossete.
~ Unknown
Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, grenades, bombs, holes, bodies, blood, Schnapps, rats, cats, gas, guns, dirt, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that's what war is. The Devil's work. Nothing but the work of the Devil!
~ Otto Dix
I went over and rolled the woman over on her back. She couldn't have been much over twenty-two or three; little, gray-eyed blonde. There was a knife in her side, under the arm. There was a .38 automatic near her outstretched hand. She was very dead.
~ Otto Penzler
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
The fact that I ever raised my hand against a woman disgusts me. It was a f**king atrocious, unforgivable way to behave, and there's no excuse for it, ever. And like I said before, it's something I'll take to the grave with me.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
We agreed that many a human life is sacrificed in sudden anger, because one or both the parties carry deadly weapons.
~ Unknown
But from each crime are born bulletsthat will one day seek out in youwhere the heart lies.
~ Pablo Neruda
Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people — and kill them.
~ Unknown
Al caer en el charco, estaba casi muerto. La mano se hundió en el agua sucia y trató de asir algo, de detener algo, de impedir que algo se fuera. Luego, quedó inmóvil. Un hombre se acercó y pateó su cara dos veces. Se subieron a los coches y se fueron. Sobre el cadáver de Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, siguió lloviendo.
~ Unknown
the only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II