“You’ll have 400 to 500 people die in Chicago like every year. That’s not amazing. That’s fucking insane. How can that many people die in a year, you know what I’m saying?”— Schoolboy Q, billboard.com
“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”— Nikolai Gogol, amazon.com
“He shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.”— Isaiah, biblehub.com
“I resent the idea that the Irish are all violent drunks. We’re perfectly capable of violence when sober, thank you very much.”— deepthaw, reddit.com
“Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!”— Luke the Evangelist, biblehub.com
“There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn’t always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.”— Ann Aguirre, amazon.com
“In any dispute, each side thinks it’s in the right and the other side is demons.”— Steven Pinker, nytimes.com
“Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them”— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com
“If I wanted to kill somebody I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing. It would be just like walking to the drugstore.”— Charles Manson, youtube.com
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.co.uk
“To accept the insanity of our political discourse and the violence in our world as normal is to declare our own insanity.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“We are all violent ones, the enraged, who, having lost the key to quietude, have access only to the secrets of laceration.”— E. M. Cioran, amazon.com
“All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“If the only people left on Earth was a pair of identical twins, they'd still find a way to play Crips and Bloods.”— Jim Goad, twitter.com
“He then bit her ear and stabbed her in her left thigh. Gabrielle screamed in pain as Cain spat out the bit of her ear he had bitten off. He laughed hysterically and licked her blood off the blade. Tears rolled down Gabrielle's cheeks as the blood flowed.”— Kalel Coetzee, wattpad.com
“If you are in an emotionally abusive relationship, there is a good chance that eventually things may get physical. At first, the abuser might pull your hair, push you, or grab you so hard that you bruise; these may only be warning signs that things can escalate further.”— Merely Me, healthcentral.com
“They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com