Violence Quotes

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who ...

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she p...

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still...

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...

I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at...

You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a ...

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of...

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unaccept...

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes...

The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned th...

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security...

What you love too violently finishes by killing you.

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe...

These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the...

To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same....

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

The continent is full of buried violence, of the bones of antediluvian monsters and of lost races of...

And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man ...

The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindicti...

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

Against the claims of a violent "human nature" there is enormous historical evidence that people, wh...

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who wo...

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in t...

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man wh...

When you hurt some cunt […] it’s you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you’ve done it for fuck all, it mea...

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming u...

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive ...

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting...

In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral...

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm ...

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a ...

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to ...

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss ...

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and p...

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and t...

How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own s...

Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the gr...

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from kee...

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying tha...

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up ...

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, ...

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wonder...

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wonder...

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still ...

I think it would be cool if we wore suits while we committed these violent acts of retribution. Not ...

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write wh...

A terrorist, I think, is simply another kind of pornographer. The pornographer pretends he is disgus...

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishme...

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from v...

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that ...

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, ...

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you nee...

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which ...

I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to...

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from fai...

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also exp...

Most people who watch a fight think it's all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, y...

We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn hi...

Mellas continued to look at the wallet, saying nothing. Hawke, who had been watching Mellas through ...

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty...

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampagin...

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power w...

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds ...

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone consider...

I shook my head. "I'm good, Nicky helped."Nicky looked at Edward. "She's having one of those what-if...

They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all the...

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease ...

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what ...

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, ...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they ren...

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly t...