Quotes About Violence

Losing your temper is a cop-out. A cheap cop-out. You don't get to lose your temper. Not when lives are on the line. Violence is a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. And its use should be as carefully calibrated as... as the cuts of a surgeon's scalpel.

Let me tell you. The military accepts everyone who volunteers, assuming they meet the basic requirements. That means, at one end of the spectrum, you get people who would just as soon cut your throat as shake your hand. And at the other end of the spectrum, you get people so timid they wouldn't hurt a fly. And what the military does is teach both of them how and when to apply violence.

Like much else, killing was something one could get used to.

By order of the Higher SS and Police Leader . . . all male Jews between the ages of 17 and 45 convicted as plunderers are to be shot according to martial law. The shootings are to take place away from cities, villages, and thoroughfares.

The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. social scientists active in psychological warfare were not ignorant of their role, or of the violence that usually accompanied psychological operations. They were, rather, insulated, just as Biderman and Crawford say, from consideration of the implications of their work.

beating people up didn't seem to get results anymore.

Would the young men called to arms laugh and joke and exchange hearty platitudes in imitation of popular fiction, while they waited to be mutilated by the stupidity and arrogance of aged politicians?

The criticism that hip hop advocates and thus causes violence relies on the unsubstantiated but widely held belief that listening to violent stories or consuming violent images directly encourages violent behavior.

Teil on vägi, millega end kaitsta, seega pole tapmisele ainsatki vabandust, ükskõik, mida teie ründaja ka ei kavatseks — isegi kui ründaja on võlur.»

Terrorism is not the enemy of the great systems; on the contrary, it is their natural counterweight, accepted, programmed.

Le guerre sono lo sfogo più efficace e naturale che si possa desiderare per tenere a freno la crescita degli esseri umani. Non si diceva infatti un tempo, partendo per la guerra, Dio lo vuole? Ma bisogna trovare gente che la guerra abbia voglia di farla. Se tutti si imboscassero, in guerra non morirebbe nessuno. E allora perché farle?

I francesi] sono cattivi. Uccidono per noia. E' l'unico popolo che ha tenuto occupati per vari anni i suoi cittadini a tagliarsi reciprocamente la testa, e fortuna che Napoleone ha deviato la loro rabbia su quelli di altra razza, incolonnandoli a distruggere l'Europa.

Después de pasarme dos años entre humanistas que recitaban fórmulas para convencer a la naturaleza de hacer cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer, recibí noticas de Italia: mis antiguos compañeros, o al menos algunos de ellos, se dedicaban a dispararle a la nuca a los que no estuviesen de acuerdo con ellos, para convencer a la gente de que hiciese cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer.

Una guerra santa sigue siendo una guerra.

todo acto de apropiación implica una dosis de violencia

It would be atrocious," I said, "to kill a man in order to say bu-ba-baff!

L'eroe Ur-Fascista gioca con le armi, che sono il suo Ersatz fallico: i suoi giochi di guerra sono dovuti a una invidia penis permanente.

The police, and the strikers also, were determined that there should be no violence; but there was another party interested which was minded to the contrary—and that was the press.

We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff of his neck, backed him up against a wall, and filled him with lead. Countries which consider themselves every bit as civilized as we do not hesitate about such matters for a moment. Whenever

The small island of Okinawa, close to Japan, had required nearly three months to capture; a hundred and twenty thousand Japanese had been killed or driven to suicide, and only eight thousand captured—which showed the kind of war it was.

which seemed to Lanny the great tragedy of the workers' movement; he thought they had enemies enough among the capitalist class, without dividing among themselves. Yet he was forced to realize that if you believed revolutionary violence to be necessary, you were apt to be violent in advocating it; while if you believed in peaceable methods—well, apparently the men of violence would force you to be violent against them!

Generalissimo Franco was a soldier, a crusader for Christianity as he conceived it, but he was a poor administrator and no economist; his only conception of government was to kill all the people who did not agree with his ideas, or at least to shut them behind bars and feed them very badly. Carpenters and masons, steelworkers and miners, were dead or dying by the thousands, and did not contribute to the restoration of the shattered cities of Spain.

In England where the radicals were allowed to gather in Hyde Park and say what they chose, crimes of political violence were practically unknown. On the other hand, in America, where it was customary for the police to arrest radicals and club and jail them, such crimes were common.

You understand how it is worked—they send their bullies into the country to provoke disturbances, and when the police put them down, that's an atrocity.