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Quotes About Violence

Breaking up is hard to do. But, bustin him in the head ain't that easy, either.
~ Lois Greiman, One Hot Mess
...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me.""You don't know that.""Yeah, you're right, " Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.
~ Carl Hiaasen, Sick Puppy
The way I'd put it, " said Makin, "is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.
~ Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns
Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits' end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.
~ George Hammond
Young girls and mass murders are tender hearted creatures
~ Pierre Lemaitre, Alex
The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)
~ Warren Moore
Secret 3963. It's only a sucking chest wound if you're not the shooter.
~ The Covert Comic
No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.
~ Lia Habel, Dearly, Departed
Twinkle twinkle little star, I want to hit you with a car. Throw you off a bridge so high, Hope you break your neck and die.
~ Katelyn Lillis
Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...
~ Hussein S. Hariri
Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.
~ Seanan McGuire, Indexing
Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.
~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Mindless violence against the undead?" said Zzzap. "Count me in.
~ Peter Clines, Ex-Communication
The answer to enemies who heal annoyingly fast is always, always decapitation. That is why swords will never go out of style.
~ Kevin Hearne, Hexed
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
~ Aviva Cantor
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.
~ Richard Lerner
When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
~ Sherman Alexie
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
~ Bill Moyers
The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.
~ John Keegan
Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.
~ Pablo Escobar
All empires are created of blood and fire.
~ Pablo Escobar
We are not shooting enough professors.
~ Vladimir Lenin
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.
~ Dalai Lama