Quotes about Violence

The robbers jumped into the road and tackled the traveler.

Doesn't take much sense to know you shouldn't live in a place if you have to carry a gun.

I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand.

A certain amount of killing has always been an arm of business

The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin

Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

Matt, I saw a man with his face blown off and no mouth to scream with, and yet he screamed and could not die. I saw two brothers, and one was in blue and one was in grey, and I will not tell you which one took his saber and ran it through the other. Oh God, it was brother against brother, Cain and Abel all over again. And I was turned into Cain. What would God have to do with a nation where brothers can turn against each other with such brutality?

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.