Violence Comparison Quotes

If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-​destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection.

Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.

The violence of the left is minor. Our total violence of the last 5 years has not reached the level of a single B-52 raid in Vietnam.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.