1,621 Quotes About Violence

Love and violence always go hand in hand. You can only ever truly hurt those you love. You must love them first to hurt them, to damage them beyond any hope of recovery, and for your actions to burn and linger, they too must love you back.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

LXXX.Den Anderen nur als 'Anderen' wahrzunehmen ist der Beginn von Gewalt.

Saying both sides participated in violence doesn't mean both sides are equally ideologically wrong, you know.

Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adjustments that no human mind can pretend to understand. Just because we cannot capture its workings in verbal propositions does not mean it should be scrapped and reinvented according to the fashionable theories of the day. Such ham-fisted tinkering will only lead to unintended consequences, culminating in violent chaos.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone.'This place being what?''This place being South Africa

We don’t necessarily know how to hear stories about any kind of violence, because it is hard to accept that violence is as simple as it is complicated, that you can love someone who hurts you, that you can stay with someone who hurts you, that you can be hurt by someone who loves you, that you can be hurt by a complete stranger, that you can be hurt in so many terrible, intimate ways.