Quotes About Violence

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

Cole stiffened in fury. "That good for nothing bitch! If I ever get my hands on her again, I'll..." Lynx grabbed Cole by the front of his shirt and yanked him to his feet. He delivered several blows into Cole's face and gut with lightening speed and forceful strength. "I'll kill you if you even think about her in passing," Lynx warned ominously at Cole's threat. -Cole & Lynx

For every survivor there is also a rapist.

I want to empasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.

The ultimate rape is murder. Sometime during the rape, they cosider killing the victim.

Rape is a crime of violence and sex is the weapon.

Half a lifetime ago, I was forced at knifepoint to a grabage dump and gang-raped.

I want to emphasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.

1 in 4 women will be raped in their lifefime, less than 10% will report the assault, and less than 5% of the rapists will go to jail.

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.

a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

She didn't think the solution to violence was to own more guns. But how could you tell that to a single mother who worked double shifts, got off the bus five blocks from home at midnight and had to walk through a tough neighborhood?

The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

What is any war but a massacre?

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

sectarian violence occurs most easily when one ethnic group is large enough to impose cultural norms in public areas but not large enough to make sure everyone abides by them.

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that's just what I'll do. It's this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I'd be a good politician.

The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him.

To make matters worse, they are often further traumatized by their present circumstances (for example, prisoners are raped, street people are attacked, mental health patients may experience helplessness during forms of treatment perceived as violent, and so on).

You can rationalise a baseball bat, but it still drastically changes the shape of your head. Three

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.