I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

Violence is essentially wordless and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage.

It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

Killing is for those with a sick mind.

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

Your friend will pay deeply for what he's done here tonight," Chance snarled once he wiped off most of the blood. "You can tell him to run as far and as fast as he can, I'll get him. Just let him know...

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn't even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could go from zero to murderous in a fucking heartbeat.

Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.

Goodnight baby, sleep in peace. After you kill that bitch!"Goodnight mom!

And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunk, and go to Arby's.

You call me Red again, Mister, and you won't need one. What you'll need is a pine box and a preacher to read about you lying down green pastures.

His name was Clifton and he was black and they shot him. Isn't that enough to tell? Isn't it all you need to know?

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

And Celaena felt it. She felt each footstep, the phantom bruises on her face throbbing with the memory of Arobynn's fists. And suddenly, as the memory of that day echoed through her, she remembered...

You fucking bitch you fucking bitch you fucking bitch. Come home so I can kill you.

There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in...

I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or deed destroys itself. It becomes a flock of sheep that...

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming...