Quotes About Violence

Violence and disrespect for your country are going to get you nowhere.

It is common sense that in our immigration courts, where children fleeing devastating violence abroad often find themselves, kids need lawyers to advocate on their behalf. After all, lawyers go to school for years to understand the nuances of our legal system.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.

In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.

We've had an assault rifle ban in our country, and that did not accomplish the objectives. We had Columbine during the time that that ban was in place.

Men don't sexually assault women because they are lustful; they do it because they want to dominate, humiliate and abuse women. They do it because they view women as objects.

Attacking innocent people is always obscene.

Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

Avevamo in comune un'importante teoria sulle risse: quando pare che stia per scoppiarne una, mena per primo.

You've seen too many movies. If you're holding a gun and you shoot a defenseless man, then you're a poor creature, a dastardly person. That's a perfectly ridiculous idea, you realize. The fact that you're holding the gun and the other man is not is no accident. It's a product of everything you've achieved, it assumes that if you're . . . you're aware enough, you have the gun when you need it.

It is not uncommon for fighters' camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with one's life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing.

Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers' lives.

Sequestered in the depths of the average pacifist—as one will invariably discover—resides a killer. That is why the person has become a pacifist in the first place.

This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war. Why, Brigham Young with his countless wives pining on the vine had the gall to state that if you discovered one of your women in adultery, it would behoove you as a good and Christian act to hold her on your lap and run a knife through her breast. That way she'd have her whack at the hereafter.

Executions must be a spectator sport.

77 millones de chinos murieron por causas no naturales a consecuencia de las guerras o de los asesinatos de masas por motivos políticos entre las décadas de 1920 y 1980, y la inmensa mayoría de ellos murieron a manos de compatriotas suyos.1

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become—as a woman thinks, so she is. If we absorb hour upon hour of images and messages that don't reflect our magnificence, it's no wonder we walk around feeling drained of our life force. If we tune in to dozens of acts of brutality every week, it shouldn't surprise us that our children see violence as an acceptable way to resolve conflict.

If you are a child born in an environment of chaos, confusion, violence, or disruption, with no normalcy or regularity-you are being set up to fail. Because the networks in your brain don't organize in the way they should.

In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself?

Where there's a lot of money to be made, there's also a lot of blood to be spilled.