# I choose violence

> English word · Phrase

## Definitions
1. Used to express that one is firmly committed to making one's own choice(s) regardless of disapproval from others.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, choose, violence.

## Etymology
Presumably inspired by a scene in the episode "No One" (2016) of the television series Game of Thrones, in which Cersei Lannister, facing clerical detention and ordered to restrain her bodyguard, calmly responds, "I choose violence."

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/i-choose-violence