1,621 Quotes About Violence

If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!

Why fight to the death when we can love eachother to death?

Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women

Jos mun tuttuni tulisi,Ennen nähtyni näkyisi,Sille kättä käppäjäisin,Vaikk ois käärme kämmenpäässä,Sille suuta suikkajaisin,Vaikk ois suu suden veressä,Siitä kaulahan kapuisin,Vaikk ois kalma kaulan päällä,Vielä vierehen kävisin,Vaikk ois vierus verta täynnä.

The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

How do evil people find the strength to do good?