Quotes about Violence

During the Crusades, when Christians were in the mood to slaughter infidels, they were very cognizant of God's sanctioning faith-based mass murder in parts of the Bible. During the Cold War, when the United States was part of an international multifaith alliance that included Muslim and Buddhist nations, this motif was played down; whole generations of American Christians were weaned on a misleadingly sunny selection of Bible stories.

Why should the killers of the world be the future and not us?

I thought black people superior people. Not simply superior to white people, because even without thinking about it much, I assumed almost everyone was superior to them; but to everyone. Only white people, after all, would blow up a Sunday school class and grin for television over their victory, i.e. , the death of four small black girls.

Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.

Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him [Sisera], and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground; for he was fast asleep, and weary: so he died.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

From battle and murder, and from sudden death.

If you're not married, and your boyfriend is putting his hands on you, you know he ain't the one, because you know that will continue.