1,621 Quotes About Violence

I propose that we change its abbreviation from ISIL or ISIS into a new name that contains the initial letters of each country or lobby that contributed to its existence.

Indeed, it could occasionally seem that support for the armed struggle was more fervent in Boston or Chicago than it was in Belfast or Derry. The romantic idyll of a revolutionary movement is easier to sustain when there is no danger that one's own family members might get blown to pieces on a trip to the grocery store.. Some people in Ireland looked askance at the "plastic Paddies" who urged bloody war in Ulster from the safe distance of America.

L'une des principales causes de division, de guerre et de violence dans le monde est le sentiment nationaliste. Le nationalisme est simplement une autre forme d'extrémisme.

Jesus stressed that God does not do drone strikes on people just because they ignore or offend him.

Do no violence to foreigners nor the fatherless.

There’s a loving familiarity in your hatred.

All this madness one has to put up with because people are unhappy and looking for a fight. Well, I'm not unhappy and I'm not looking for a fight.

Lurking in roughly equal preeminence in humankind’s angst-ridden soul is an antipodal nature, a righteous persona manacled to an agathokakological creature. The species Homo sapiens creates art, literature, music, poetry, architecture, and developed mathematics and philosophy. This creature is also prone to homicide, equipped for rape and sadism, inclined towards religious violence and secular killings, and capable of torture and cannibalism.

Ce sont toujours les dominants qui fixent le niveau de la violence dans l'histoire.