Violence Quotes

I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

Destruction is easy, but what have you created?

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.

Psychos will always be psychos; they don’t need video games to help them.

If breaking something is considered violence, then what would breaking the heart be?
Terrorism?

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence

The only idea that must be conveyed using violent rhetoric and imagery is violence.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

What he is issuing is the distilled violence, cruelty and bigotry - and sexual hypocrisy - that stretches from the Crusades through the Inquisition to the 'concordats' between the church and Hitler and Mussolini.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

Strike him so that he can feel that he is dying.

There is no such thing as pointless violence. City of God, is that pointless violence? It's reality, it's real life, it has to do with the human condition. Being involved in Christianity and Catholicism when I was very young, you have that innocence, the teachings of Christ. Deep down you want to think that people are really good - but the reality outweighs that.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.