Quotes About Violence

We have been slow to recognize the degree to which religious faith perpetuates man's inhumanity to man.

A close study of these books, and of history, demonstrates that there is no act of cruelty so appalling that it cannot be justified, or even mandated, by recourse to their pages.

Sayyid Qutb

And we must decline to tell our children that human history began with bloody magic and will end with bloody magic in a glorious war between the righteous and the rest.

Some people think that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are justified in order to defend Islam from its enemies.

Most Muslims who commit atrocities are explicit about their desire to get to paradise.

Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed.

When will we realize that the concessions we have made to faith in our political discourse have prevented us from even speaking about, much less uprooting, the most prolific source of violence in our history?

Life under the Taliban is, to a first approximation, what millions of Muslims around the world want to impose on the rest of us. They long to establish a society in which—when times are good—women will remain vanquished and invisible, and anyone given to spiritual, intellectual, or sexual freedom will be slaughtered before crowds of sullen, uneducated men.

I nibbled on the edge—it tasted like a piece of bologna that had met a violent death and been embalmed.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

When Taimour was hit by a bullet in the left shoulder, he began to stagger toward the man who shot him, reaching out with his hands. He remembered the look in the soldier's eyes. 'He was about to cry,' Taimour said three years later.

This was about twelve years ago, when I was just starting out in the business. There was this fearsome old pirate called Greenbeard. Killed hundreds of people, sank ships, robbed, plundered, pillaged, was generally unpleasant. You know the type.' 'Why was his beard green?' 'It wasn't. But the other colours were taken. (...)

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

And all the while, I was thinking, This cannot be happening. Not to me. I, Lilly Martin, cannot be cowering in a corner of my own bedroom trying to protect myself from my husband. "This happens to people you read about in the newspaper, I thought. Poor or ignorant or otherwise disadvantaged people who grew up in violent homes and continue the cycle.

I married you to stop the bloodshed, and you keep killing. When will it be enough- when?

Who would have believed that Israeli soldiers would kill hundreds of children and that the majority of Israelis would remain silent?

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill—and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

Un odio bien alimentado es la mejor arma para seguir matando

If you kill with homemade bombs it's called terrorism, and if you kill with machine guns and hunger it's called defense.

A complaint can be a point you reach when you can't take it, when you are "just done with this," the violence

When violence gets in, a complaint comes out.

Unlike the recorded teachings of Jesus, however, anarchist ideology embraced the considered use of violence. Lucy Parsons avowed that had she been at Haymarket Square when the police arrived, had she seen their behavior and heard what transpired, she would have "flung the bomb [her]self.

Red scares united Americans against not just the handful of violent anarchists, but against the hundreds of thousands of labor activists who were tarred with the same brush.