1,621 Quotes About Violence

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps

Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.

Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.