Quotes About Violence

Families embraced more than had been the habit; fathers who expected to be beaten to death stroked the hair of pretty daughters who expected to be raped.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

The terrorist lives for terror, not for the change he tells himself he wants. He masks his desire to kill and destroy behind the curtain of a cause. It is destruction he wants, not creation.

People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

There's a saying that when guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns.

And then there's the gun itself. No man in his right mind will play with a gun. I've seen show-offs doing fancy spins and all that. No real gun-fighter ever did. With a hair-trigger, he'd be likely to blow a hole in his belly. The gun-fighter knows enough of guns to be wary of them. He treats them with respect. A pistol was never made for anything except killing, and a gunfighter never draws a gun unless to shoot, and he shoots to kill.

They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment.

If you're going to have peace rather than violence, both sides have got to want it. One side alone can't make peace.

Aye, but a hand properly used can be as dangerous as a knife . . . And a man is not lynched for what he does with his hands.

What so many of us who abhor violence often forget is that we have peace and civilized lives because there were men and women who went before us who were willing to fight for our freedom to live in peace.

When evil takes up to violence, the good have no choice but to defend themselves.

You killed Rice Wheeler, he said, the Panhandle gunman. He should have stayed in the Panhandle, I said.

people have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gambling, thieving, and robbing are covered over, folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.

Don't go for that gun," I said quietly. "I want you tried in a court of law, not dead on this floor.

The whole town was like that. Probably there weren't three men in town who had not used guns, and used them a lot.

No telling what those men wanted... but in these times there were white men with bloodier hands than any Indian...

Murder? It is not easily done, amigo.

deck. Gavagan rushed him, getting inside and hitting him with a right to the jaw.

you stick your lunch-hooks into my corn bin without I say and you'll catch yourself a death of cold, because I'll open your belly with a shotgun.

A lot of people hear about violence but never come face to face with it, and they've no experience with men of violence. One thing I'd learned a long time back: you just can't waste time talking. If there's talking to do, do it afterwards.

Bell. His next punch was a clean miss, but if Bell missed any at all they had been invisible punches, for Bell had promptly given him such a beating that it was three days before he could ride out of town. No man in a lifetime takes two such beatings. No man could take them. When Jud Devitt approached