Quotes About Violence

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

These gun-free areas are actually - they're free-shooting zones for people because they know that there won't be anybody there that can stop them.

Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.

We now know that gun-free zones, though well intentioned, do not prevent attacks.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease, her husband leaves her in nine out often cases; when a man contracts it, his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

And one of the unfortunate-but-sad truths is that sexual assault, sexual violence is far more prevalent in American society than a lot of people recognize.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

One day guns were pulled on us by older guys. My friend had gone to sell his moped and they took the moped, my friend's phone and some money. But all he got from my pocket was a tub of Vaseline. I remember him saying, 'Oh, he's a sweet boy' and throwing my Vaseline on the floor.

The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.

I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.

I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency.