Quotes About Violence

No es fácil. No es nada fácil. Piensa en todo lo que quiere hacer las cosas mal. Todo el miedo del mundo, la violencia que proviene del miedo, el odio que proviene de la violencia, la soledad que proviene del odio. Hanno Hath

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

Había una guerra, pero, como siempre, la dirigencia colombiana aceptaba como legítima toda violencia que se ejerciera desde el poder y condenaba como criminal toda violencia que se opusiera a las autoridades, incluso en legítima defensa, aunque la actuación de las autoridades fuera evidentemente injusta.

Y sin duda la violencia seguirá existiendo hasta cuando nuestras naciones alcancen una democracia verosímil y hagan realidad los supuestos mínimos de igualdad que pregonan sus leyes. La

Sólo una oposición legal verdaderamente actuante y eficaz puede hacer inútil e injustificada la dañina oposición armada, con su capacidad de extorsión y de terrorismo.

Regan killing Dennings? What madness! He envisioned her shoving

I am an historian of warfare; I often describe my job as similar to that of an oncologist. I study that which kills and hope that one day humanity will find a cure.

I'd of shot him in town if he lived that long.

Incidents of Red aircraft strafing hospitals and hospital trains were so common that the Finns finally painted over any Red Cross insignia that were visible from the air.

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

In 528, still the crown prince, not yet king, Khusro discovered that his father's Mazdakite allies were conspiring against the throne. Driven, perhaps, by a combination of loyalty, anger, and a desire to demonstrate a kingly sort of resolution, in 529 the prince arrested, tortured, and executed Mazdak, and followed up with a massacre of his followers. (The Mazdakites would one day serve as inspiration for Islam's dissident Shi'a.)

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

This leads to the central dilemma of Fourth Generation war: what works for you on the physical (and sometimes mental) level often works against you at the moral level.

We also see the power of weakness. In Fourth Generation warfare, the weak often have more moral power than the strong. One of the first people to employ the power of weakness was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi's insistence on non-violent tactics to defeat the British in India was and continues to be a classic strategy of Fourth Generation war. When the British responded to Indian independence rallies with violence, they immediately lost the moral war.

In Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turban'd TurkBeat a Venetian and traduc'd the state,I took by the throat the circumcised dog,And smote him thus.

I have given suck, and knowHow tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:I would, while it was smiling in my face,Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as youHave done to this.

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, "Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."

Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood:Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Macduff was from his mother's wombUntimely ripp'd.

This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein.

Grow like savages—as soldiers will,That nothing do but meditate on blood.

O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,That I am meek and gentle with these butchers;Thou art the ruins of the noblest manThat ever lived in the tide of times.