1,621 Quotes About Violence

It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicle that you realize that violence is never the answer.

When the people of a state think that violence is normal, then it is a failed state.

Sometime, the only way you can make someone listen is with your fist. This is not a technique espoused, I know by the diagnostic manuals on most therapists' shelves.Then again nobody ever said I was a therapist.

This is what he likes—violence and rebellion. But only when he can control it.

The power of empathy is essential in helping those who are societies most vulnerable.

Men cannot confront the naked truth of their own violence without the risk of abandoning themselves to it entirely. They have never had a very clear idea of this violence, and it is possible that the survival of all human societies of the past was dependent on this fundamental lack ofunderstanding.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

You are comfortable when violence is done by others on your behalf—when gods are imprisoned, when men are slain or reduced to slavery, you do not blink. But faced with the need to dirty your own hands, you shudder.

Meciéndose en la silla, el juez lo persiguió con una mirada sombría mientras limpiaba el pasamanos. El secretario lo contempló como si tuviera el propósito de no olvidarlo jamás bajo aquella luz, en ese instante y en esa posición, y dijo señalándolo con el índice:—Así como está usted ahora, ni más ni menos, estaba el juez Vitela cuando lo perforaron a tiros.