1,621 Quotes About Violence

Men protect women from those like them.

It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most violent.

There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural symbol. The above-ground tomb does not have to be invented. It is the pile of stones in which the victim of the unanimous stoning is buried. It is the first pyramid.

Orcs only know one language. Blood. I'm the fucking alphabet.

Violence is not just an emotion, it is a culture. Some suffer in it, some are born into it and others cannot live without it.

So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was one of the great triumphalist themes of modernism. World's fairs were staged in its honor, one after another. Now that globalization is here, however, it arouses more anxiety than pride. The erasing of differences may not portend the era of universal reconciliation that everyone confidently expected.

Everyone knows the great energies running amok castterrible shadows, that each of the so-calledsenseless acts has its thread loopingback through the world and into a human heart.

Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.

Everything boiled down to alcohol and guns.