Quotes About Violence

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

History has been the history of warfare.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.