“The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.” NeedsFactsSportsDealsViolenceFootballLeagueInherentSavagesCeoGuardianPersonnel Author:Frank Deford
“The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.” IfsMayChoicesAnswersViolenceToughThreatResponseAcceptableSavagesRight AnswersTough Choices Author:Jeff Cooper
“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.” MenFirstsMadeWaterFateViolenceJourneyLandArmsShoreSavagesCoastFugitiveBatteredLand And Water Book:The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation Source: The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation
“A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.” MenMayWarReasonViolenceMankindSecurityCommittedCriminalsDestroyedBeastLionsSavagesUnjustTigersSlaughter Book:The Second Treatise on Civil Government Source: The Second Treatise on Civil Government
“Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!” MenWayViolenceHe ManToolsMethodCrueltyPrimitiveAggressionSavagesBarbariansBloodshedCivilised Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young man, and no old man either, should have so much power over the life and death of so many helpless individuals. It is corrupting. It sometimes provokes desperate, savage and indiscriminate violence among the occupied.” MenShouldYearsLittlesSometimesYoungGirlIndividualBoysViolenceArmsKingsGunShould HaveMachinesYoung ManDesperateLife And DeathOld ManVillageAlmightySavagesHelplessProvokingMachine Guns Author:Amos Oz