Quotes About Violence

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Because white men can't police their imaginations, black men are dying.

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.