Quotes About Violence

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.

Killing of an innocent, alike killing of humanity.

No two souls are alike; but at the core, they are the same. All souls have had different life experiences, and in a way, those experiences shape our outlook on life and the various ways to live it. Souls can express themselves through a life of compassion, tolerance, judgment, or violence.

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

How his family was killed. Fakhri and his thugs raiding villages, burning, raping. Sunnis, Shi'a, Alawites, Christians, everybody killing everybody else. People say the Mafia's bad. Mafia's nothing next to those fucking religions.

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.

S)lavery could not function without the lubricant of violence. . . The whip accompanied the lives of the enslaved from the moment they entered an Atlantic slave ship to their dying days in slavery.

A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, "Burn him!" It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible.

Whenever I hear protests from the South that it should be left alone to deal with the Negro question, my thoughts go back to that scene of brutality and savagery. I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

An offence with words is the worst offence.Word kills

Wishes to Diffuse Fear-Triggering Anger: "I want all rage totally and easily lifted from me in a happy way" "I want all emotional violence totally lifted from me" "I want all frustration totally lifted from me" "I want the instinctive reaction of anger totally lifted from me.

Als ze verder slenteren, zegt Dirk verontschuldigend tegen Michiel: 'Het heeft immers geen zin erover te praten.' 'Nee,' zegt Michiel, 'het heeft geen zin. Eén ding heeft maar zin.' 'Wat dan?' 'Nooit meer in een oorlog vechten, alleen nog tegen oorlog.' 'Zo is het,' zegt Dirk.

Men swung wildly at each other, mostly missing their intended target and hitting the women, who had handfuls of each other's hair and were bent over turning in a circle like performing some insane dance. It was a bar fight without the bar.

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

There is often the fear of "making waves" or "not being good" and enormous guilt for doing or saying the wrong thing or making a mistake. Family members rarely see or learn normal conflict resolution, and any sign of conflict triggers fear of either violence or abandonment.

All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.