Violence Quotes
Kurt Vonnegut
If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.
4254 Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
4172 Patton Oswalt
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
4187 Flannery O'Connor
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
3133 Swami Dhyan Giten
There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.
3426 Martin Hopkins
Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours...
2538 Martin Hopkins
The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.
1103 Martin Hopkins
Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.
3971 Hannah Kilfoyle
The sun leaves me to silence
Before my eyes adjust
My ears are tuned for violence
My jaw begins to rust
His words wrap all about me
And heavy as they seem
They do not feel as filthy
As leaving them in dreams
1081 Vironika Tugaleva
The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
3298 Stefan Molyneux
We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
3790 Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.
4869 Raymond Carver
Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
4476 Ben Elton
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
2031 Eoin Colfer
Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
1477 Terry Pratchett
I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?
3731 Ernst F. Schumacher
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
1282 Yehuda Bauer
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
2023 Albert Einstein
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
1503 Matthew Gregory Lewis
He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.
3217 Samuel Engelen
I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.
3340 Peter Kreeft
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
4283 Holly Estil Cunningham
Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.
2823 Anne Holm
Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.
2512 Joan Baez
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
3829 Alice Sebold
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
4956 Sena Jeter Naslund
If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
3868 P.D. James
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
3045 Louis L'Amour
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.
4945 Ron Rash
A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
3091 Aberjhani
This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.
3772 Bauvard
The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
4085 Aberjhani
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
3884 Wallace Stevens
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.
These two things are one.
2255 Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
...always-
the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')
2288 Jeffrey Tucker
There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.
3805 Tsegaye Gebre Medhin
I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.
3766 Christopher Moore
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
4459 Isaac Asimov
Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.
4936 Mahatma Gandhi
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles."
(Young India, 22 October 1925)
1379 Gil Bailie
The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed.
4089 Michael Chabon
All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption.
2459 Tucker Elliot
America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.
1573 David R. Smock
The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true "peace message" that is inherent in almost every religion. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 55)
2518 LeAnne Mechelle
I crave the violence of your affection. I ache for the way it jumbles my insides and makes my heart feel like it's harboring a thunderstorm. I've never felt more alive in all my time on this earth, as I have, being underneath your touch.
2760 Shahla Khan
Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.
3311 Donata Joseph
Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.
1906 Howard Tayler
Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.
1533 Howard Tayler
Maxim 37:
There is no "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "time to reload".
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
1729 Howard Tayler
Hi. I'm here to enlist.
You can't. You aren't human.
You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like "interspeciated workplaces." We're a crack company of space mercenaries. We do "hurting people" and "breaking things."
Sounds like my kind of fun.
-Schlock & Lieutenant Der Trihs
2933 Howard Tayler
Maxim 6:
If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
1903 Howard Tayler
When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn
2542 Howard Tayler
So you're a fellow mercenary, then.
Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?
Don't ask for that. All it means is that you might get to face the person who kills you. . . But only if it's convenient.
-Elf, Glamour Assault Host, & Doctor Bunnigus
1325 Howard Tayler
No! Wait! I've got a better idea..."
"Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock."
"And your point is..."
"Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'."
-Sergeant Schlock & Captain Tagon
1907 Howard Tayler
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.
-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon
4717 Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
3324 Jim Morrison
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
4545 James W. Bodden
There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.
3012 Nenia Campbell
Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.
3633 Fuyumi Ono
The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.
3385 T.C. Boyle
He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in the suburbs? The world was violent, rotten, corrupt, seething with hatred and perversion, and there was no escaping it. Everything you worked for, everything you loved, had to be locked up as if you were in a castle under siege.
4145 Nenia Campbell
Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.
3416 Jack Ketchum
In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.
1482 Max Stirner
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
4356 Toni Morrison
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
3912 Mike Norton
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
3967 Alison Larkin
I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.
1590 Leon Trotsky
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
2350 George W. Bush
For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.
1796 Friedrich Hayek
Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.
1812 Jeffrey Tucker
The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.
2886 Kofi Annan
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
1446 Thomas Sowell
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
2631 Guy Sajer
A day came when I should have died,
and after than nothing seemed very important,
so I stayed as I am, without regret
separated from the normal human condition.
2592 Bill Maher
Every day in America is a day with a shooting.
1622 Guy Sajer
Only victors have stories to tell,
we the vanquished were then thought of
as cowards and weaklings whose memories
and fears should not be remembered.
3104 Sara Sheridan
I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It's just that I find it quite harrowing and I much prefer if it isn't completely outlined for me because my imagination can do that.
1418 Roman Payne
I’ve seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.
2397 Keith Hollihan
It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.
4446 John Dominic Crossan
To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.
4589 Richard Pryor
You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.
2486 Will Christopher Baer
Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?
I try to smile. What's the difference, really.
2576 J.G. Ballard
Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.
4788 Karina Halle
Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles.
3320 Stephen Lewis
One is that if women’s sexuality in Africa wasn’t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren’t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn’t have a pandemic.
2823 Nenia Campbell
They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals - if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.
2303 Nenia Campbell
A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.
4837 Joe McGinniss Jr.
Chase asks her what time the appointment is booked for. Rachel says, "It's at 11:30 or midnight. He's supposed to call to confirm." She checks her cell. "But I want to be there early." she says.
"Why?"
"Just to be on the safe side."
"There isn't one, Rachel.
4843 Tom Spanbauer
With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.
1247 Bryan Talbot
Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.
2111 Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.
3699 Bryant McGill
The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.
4599 Rachel Caine
In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.
4879 Malcolm X
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
1317 Robert A. Heinlein
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
1511 Naomi Klein
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
2203 Chris Hedges
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
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