1,621 Quotes About Violence

There is a concept in psychology called ‘moral injury,’ notion, distinct from the idea of trauma, that relates to the ways in which ex-soldiers make sense of the socially transgressive things they have done during wartime. Price felt a sharp sense of moral injury: she believed that she had been robbed of any ethical justification for her own conduct.

People who got the least respect in this world felt the greatest need to demand it of bosses, friends, even strangers on the street. They felt slights more acutely than the rest of us. And the impulse to right the wrong frequently cost them what little opportunity they got.

She points the phone back to her own face. 'So can we be finished now, yes? Or should we keep on killing people?'Javier unleashes a noise that's half sob and half laughter. He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.

[The Khmer Rogue soldier] screams a loud, shrill cry, that piercing my heart like a stake, and I imagine that this, maybe, is how Pa died. The soldier's head hangs, bobbing up and down like a chicken's... The woman raises her hammer again. I almost feel pity for him. But it is too late to let him go, it is too late to go back. It is too late for my parents and my country.

The man that abused you was hardly kind but he was familiar.Dark or dim, you could find him in a crowded room. And he walks freely. Has friends, a job, even a new lover. But there is this cage in his mind.A trap that follows him around. He is his own enemy.

I think that we have successfully said that rape is not sex, it’s violence. But what we have not successfully said is that pornography is not erotica. Porne means female slaves. Eros has an idea of love and mutual pleasure and free choice. I fear that pornography is taking over sex when in fact it’s way more about domination.

Everyone has violence in themselves. I'm violent.

The three stood in a near-equilateral triangle, bows poised, pointing arrows at each other in a woodland Mexican standoff.

But her heart was hurting her with its violence.