Violence Quotes

"There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a very violent culture." "If you were going to shoot a mime would you use a silencer" "The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force" "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you." "Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies" "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world." "To justify their decision to kill, the terrorists have always tried to argue that they stand in a direct line of descent from Napoleon, the Founding Fathers, o" "Since it is impossible to eliminate wars the most important thing is to disarm them" "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." "I hate to advocate drugs alcohol violence or insanity to anyone but they’ve always worked for me" "Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem." "Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime" "Religion is like a knife: you can use it to cut bread, or you can use it to stab somebody in the back." "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?" "Writing saves me from the sin and inconvenience of violence." "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes" "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." "Only the dead have seen the end of war "