1,621 Quotes About Violence


  • Author Mokapi More
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    Since I was born, I never heard of violence involving the shooting of 255 bullets, and as a result of such ambush, 12 people died. What a bloody ambush. One not to be forgotten in the history of South African tale of "hitmen diaries".

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  • Author Homer
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    Sprachs, und entsandte den speer; ihn richtete Pallas AtheneGrad am aug in die nas; und die schimmernden zähne durchdrang sie;Auch die zung and der wurzel entschnitt das gewaltie erz ihm,Daß die stürmende Spitze am unteren Kinne hinausfuhr. (Ilias; fünfter Gesang V. 290-293)

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  • Author John Cowper Powys
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    There was a general stir in the room and a craning forward of necks. The seasoned cronies of the Three Peewits had long ago discovered that the most delectable of all social delights was a quarrel that just stopped short of physical violence.

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  • Author Amiya Kumar Bagchi
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    Capitalism has relied on markets so long as they has served its purpose. As in the past, big capital has not been squeamish in training big guns on innocent people when they appear as obstacles against its designs. As in the past, the propaganda of the civilizing mission was in full drive even as cluster bombs tore apart the bodies of the intended beneficiaries of that civilizing process or as two-thousand- or nine-thousand-pound bombs buried patients of a whole hospital under the debris.

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