Quotes About Violence

I feel that if white people were attacked by Negroes—if the forces of law prove unable, or inadequate, or reluctant to protect those whites from those Negroes—then those white people should protect and defend themselves from those Negroes, using arms if necessary. And I feel that when the law fails to protect Negroes from whites' attack, then those Negroes should use arms, if necessary, to defend themselves.

Human history's greatest crime was the traffic in black flesh when the devil white man went into Africa and murdered and kidnapped to bring to the West in chains, in slave ships, millions of black men, women, and children, who were worked and beaten and tortured as slaves.

I knew that no one would kill you quicker than a Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.

Cómo es posible que la sucesión de masacres escolares en Estados Unidos no haya conmovido al país lo suficiente como para imponer el fin de la venta libre de armas?

Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?

I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move on to the cutting.

The willingness to use force usually means you won't have to. It is a paradox because our modern culture conditions us to believe violence attracts violence, and violence never solves anything.

The younger religions are usually the most violent, which means less tolerant of those who don't quack exactly as they do.

Anytime you are tempted to resort to violence, this is the bottom line: if you ain't ready to die for it or kill for it, don't do it.

People are incredibly violent and inflict tremendous pain without even thinking about it. what's really scary is that, to them, violence has no meaning. They aren't being cruel; they are being machines.

four bases of violence: fear, frenzy, tantrum, and criminal.

If you try violence, I will defend." Perhaps defend isn't the best term; retaliate is better.

I once quoted a man as saying, "Violence is the first option, and the last choice, of the competent.

Yes there are violent and dangerous criminals out there, but there are many more people in the world who will kill you for pissing them off.

By the time I wrote this book I had begun to finally figure out that: a) there was a direct relationship between my behavior and those attempts on my life: b) maybe my previous strategy of becoming better at violence instead of not pissing off people needed to be reviewed: c) that there were knowable 'rules' in different environments: d) you could learn them so as not to run afoul with point A.

if necessary, leave. The party may be spoiled, you might not be able to see the end of the movie, etc. so what? It's better than getting your head knocked in or being around to watch the stomping that is about to happen. somebody is going to get seriously hurt. That means hospitals and police—not fun, folks. oddly enough, when you are really tough, it's easier to walk away from this sort of thing.

the soul does violence to itself when it is overpowered by pleasure or by pain.

To him they are only sectaries 'violently and passionately set upon opposition.

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Liebgott stuck the Luger between the mayor's eyes and pulled the trigger. The Luger misfired. Right when it clicked, this German went off running down the road. Speirs said, 'Shoot him.' One of our men shot and missed. I shot about thirty feet over the mayor's head. Another man brought him down. I won't say who. --Don Bond

Humanity's universal sin is far, far worse than those traditional vice lists cited for Greeks and Jews by Paul in Romans 1–3. It is this: we have accepted violence as civilization's drug of choice, and our addiction now threatens creation itself.

Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally.

Eschatology is not, of course, about the destruction of the earth, but about its transfiguration, not about the end of the world, but about the end of evil, injustice, violence—and imperialism.

The terrible truth is that our world has never established peace through victory. Victory establishes not peace, but lull. Thereafter, violence returns once again, and always worse than before. And it is that escalator violence that then endangers our world.