Quotes About Violence

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...

War without fire', said Henry V, 'is like sausages without mustard.

He dreaded the sound of his father's car in the driveway at night, knowing he would have to protect his mother, and probably be beaten in the process.

A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

War is personal, kid. You're surrounded by other soldiers, but you're fundamentally alone. Every combat soldier will tell you the same. You pull the trigger, and a man dies. You paint a tree with his brains or spill his guts out in the mud. The how of it don't signify, except in the nightmares, maybe, or what you see in the mirror first time you find the courage to look.

in 2010, a University of Alabama scientist gunned down six of her colleagues. Here's what made Amy Bishop snap.

The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.

No lo entiendes: ella había nacido para morir. Yo nací para matar. Simplemente, era cuestión de que nos encontráramos el uno al otro.

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. The great flaw in the

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.

Laws provide, as much as is possible, that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others; they do not guard them from the negligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves. No man can be forced to be rich or healthful, whether he will or no. Nay, God Himself will not save men against their wills.

and so made Jesus Christ nothing but the restorer and preacher of pure natural religion; thereby doing violence to the whole tenour of the New Testament.

the state of war once begun, continues with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace

distinction between pirates and lawful princes; he that has force is without any more ado to be obeyed, and crowns and sceptres would become the inheritance only of violence and rapine.

Omitted is the fact that the UK's homicide rate rose after its gun control laws were enacted.8 The UK's homicide rate is lower than the US's, but this is despite the country's counterproductive gun control laws, not because of them. The UK's homicide rate was very low before it had any gun control laws.

Forty-three percent of mass public shooters were seeing mental health care professionals prior to their shootings (Figure 15). The New York Times came up with a slightly higher number when it analyzed mass public shootings from 1949 to 1999.46 The results confirm something that we have known for a long time — it is very difficult for psychiatric professionals to know who will actually commit mass murder.