Quotes About Violence

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Para vivir como vivo, mucho mejor fuera irme a Buenos Aires. pero es ésta la cuestión: me gustaría ir a Bs. As. el día en que un no como el de B. esta tarde se estrelle contra mi serenidad. O sea, remontar el infierno de las relaciones violentas y trágicas con los demás. Pero tal vez será así toda mi vida. Seguro que será así mientras me hago ilusiones sobre una presunta madurez y una presunta serenidad.

a good time to be thinking about all that, given that we're just about to tear a new hole in the ass of Iraq.

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

En los tumultos populares hay siempre cierto número de hombres que, o por acaloramiento de pasión, o por persuasión fanática, o por un designio malvado, o por un perverso gusto del desorden, hacen todo lo posible por llevar las cosas al peor extremo; proponen o promueven los consejos más despiadados, soplan en el fuego cada vez que empieza a languidecer: nunca es demasiado para ellos; no querrían que el tumulto tuviera fin ni medida.

perché le guerre fatte senza una ragione sarebbero ingiuste)

Marijuana use was more likely to be linked with the death of children than almost any other factor, including domestic violence or mental illness. Once again, researchers who weren't looking for evidence that cannabis was linked to violence found it anyway.

men in close combat

Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.

For the student of war, the Horn of Africa offers a cornucopia of violence and destruction. It has interstate wars and civil wars; international military interventions and maritime piracy; genocidal massacres and non-violent popular uprisings; conventional wars fought in trenches and irregular wars fought by jihadists and followers of a messianic cult.

What happened December 12?" Polyester asks. I look at the wall, my attention suddenly riveted by a palmetto bug, feelers writhing. I could kill it if I wanted. He hit me." The bug slides to the floor.

What is it?" She hissed through clenched teeth. "What's wrong?" He bent down toward her. "I was just thinking how beautiful you looked." The punch was impressive, both accurate and strong. Jette's fist caught her husband squarely on the jaw. It was an absolute peach of a shot, and it propelled him backward into the chest of drawers.

He seemed to be a genuinely kind man—when he wasn't killing. —Helen Morrison, M.D., referring to Ed Gein in her book My Life Among the Serial Killers

There are so many . . . who carry the violence, who keep moving forward enshrouded in its aftermath. Yet there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency, especially among the rest of us.

The shooting doesn't end. Nor does the grinding poverty. Or the deeply rooted segregation. Or the easy availability of guns. Or the shuttered schools and boarded-up homes. Or the tensions between police and residents. And yet each shooting is unlike the last, every exposed and bruised life exposed and bruised in its own way.

Do you directly target the violence because it so discourages any kind of economic development? Or do you bring in jobs and rehab homes, knowing that with a sense of opportunity the violence will diminish?

Feminist admirers of direct action often overlook Mary Richardson's later public life. After participating in bombing and arson campaigns in support of suffragism, Richardson became a very senior member of the British Union of Fascists,[14] a path that other Suffragettes followed.

Peter's feeling at the present time seems to have been much the same: "If Thou be the Son of God, why shouldst Thou suffer an ignominious, violent death? Thou hast power to save Thyself from such a fate; surely Thou wilt not hesitate to use it!" The attached disciple, in fact, was an unconscious instrument employed by Satan to subject Jesus to a second temptation, analogous to the earlier one in the desert of Judea.

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

You don't question the right of the government to kill, to confiscate and imprison. If a private person should be guilty of the things the government is doing all the time, you'd brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. But as long as the violence committed is "lawful," you approve of it and submit to it. So it is not really violence that you object to, but to people using violence "unlawfully.

Destroying art is practice for destroying people.

The catcalls from the cars make me feel strong at first. Isn't beauty strong? I'd always thought beauty was strength, and so I wanted to be beautiful. Those cheers on the street are like a weightlifter's bench-press record. The blond hair is like a flag, and all around me in the night are teams. But with each shout, I am more aware of the edge, how the excitement could turn into violence, blood, bruises, death.

There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly explain how much I want to hit you with a chair."