132 quotes found
“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”
“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”
“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.”
“As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her tr...”
“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 seei...”
“Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin”
“The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.”
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”
“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”
“Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that its sometimes invisible to the naked eye. Theres...”
“Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.”
“Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.”
“Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.”
“Violence is as American as cherry pie”
“In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the win...”
“Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a primitive, irrational urge, nor is it a "pathology" except in the metaphorical s...”
“To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!”
“Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugline...”
