What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.

We don’t like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

…robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

It’s just logical, so long as there is violence, it’s very hard for both parties to engage in meaningful political talks.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor’s historic threat of violence against capital.

If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter.

I collect human skin. I keep it all on the bumper of my car.

Isn’t it amazing that, historically, the “Prince of Peace” has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me...

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism...

I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt...

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities...

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

We are very concerned by the latest tensions in the southeast in Turkey and the violence which have resulted in casualties. We deplore the loss of all human life, and we are well aware that...

A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant’s bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in...

It is my assertion, however, that the project of remaking humanity and defining identity has been at the core of this century, and that much of this project was characterized by a tremendous destructive urge...

Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself...

I’m going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds.

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal, their souls had sustained a damage beyond...

I am no Muslim scholar proclaimed by any institution, but I can think and command myself with discerning mental ability.What you will read on my page has no praises for intellectual manipulation of any Mullah...

If we can use an H-bomb–and as you said it’s no checker game; it’s real, it’s war and nobody is fooling around–isn’t it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives...

A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

The time approachesThat will with due decision make us knowWhat we shall say we have and what we owe.Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;Towards which, advance the war.They exit marching.

Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

So long as they don’t get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

It didn’t include any mention of the terrorist groups that are responsible for the ongoing violence in the region and for trying to destroy the efforts of the many well-intentioned parties to bring peace to...

The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?

There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it’s probably best to avoid people who punch you.

Further, any way of life based on the importation of resources is also functionally based on violence, because if your way of life requires the importation of resources, trade will never be sufficiently reliable: if...

A man of your valor deserves not another breath.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

Johnny Kickstand bullied me in middle school. Today, Kickstand stands 4’7” tall. Well, he would stand that tall if he weren’t in a wheelchair. So he’s a cripple and a midget, but he still whooped...

Atmosphere of violence, instability …

They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following...

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with...

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

When you carry a gun, everything starts looking like a sword. If you pass the butter too quickly, I’m likely to shoot you. But even if you attack me, we can still be lovers.

But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions...

Odia su violencia, pero nunca lo odies a él.

to work actively to end the violence and maintain calm.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Modern warfare wasn’t supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan’s first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered...

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

He’d possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn’t happen more often.