Quotes About Violence

Some aweful things happened to a Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of crazy, senseless hatred.

Jackson raised his cane to strike him as he was tackled to the ground.* "The old General sprung at him like a tiger," Tyler recalled, "and manifested as much fearlessness as one could possibly have done.

The House censured Brooks, who resigned but was again elected, resuming his seat seven weeks after the attack. Every southern member of Congress, "without conspicuous exception," defended Brooks, who had beaten a trapped, unarmed man with a cane until it broke, and nearly killed him. Sumner would be incapacitated for three years, but re-elected by the Massachusetts legislature despite his absence.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

The saddest thing is an old bag lady, freezing to death in the snow on Christmas Eve, and the last thing she sees is a family in a nice warm diner getting beheaded by the Taliban.

I was glad to have the opportunity, but now I am glad to be rid of it. The constant violence, or the impending threat of it, and the toll of seeing so many casualties, over time, has enveloped me in an environment that weighs as heavily as a wool shroud even on pleasant days. To be the tiller at the wheel of man's hatred for man should be a tour of duty, not a career. - Ashley Crandall

Black crime tends to be stupid, not crazy.When you hear on the news that somebody chopped off his girlfriend's head, drank her blood, and used her toes to play pool, chances are it was a white guy. An old lady kicked downstairs for her welfare check? A black guy. Someone cut out the old lady's eyes and used them as knickknacks? Definitely a white guy.

You got a gun, you don't have to work out.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

ALL THOSE GOOD COPS YALL LOVE BRINGING UP WHEN YOU SAY NOT ALL COPS ARE BAD SEEM TO NEVER BE AROUND WHEN THEIR COMRADES ARE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE

90% of U.S. mass shootings are committed by white people aged 14-56. For some reason I've never ONCE heard a white person called a terrorist.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

DON'T RAPE WOMEN. YOU MAY GET AIDS.

know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.' — Albert Einstein

There is a common medieval literary trope, and some actual cases, of enemies being invited to a meal to make peace, and then being killed while eating and drinking; it may have been a sensible strategy, for people's guards were down, but it was very dishonourable indeed.

homicide levels in English medieval villages matched those of the most violent US cities of the twentieth century.

Admittedly, sometimes they were right, as in the gothic events of Christmas 896, when the corpse of Pope Formosus (891–6) was dug up by his enemy and successor Stephen VI and put on trial; but that horrified the Romans, too–Stephen did not survive another year. Normally, Roman violence to losers had its own stately logic.)

I've witnessed a lot of young people dying, mostly from gunshot wounds. Ain't no bravery like in the movies. Everybody cries when they realize it's the end. Everybody.

Spit and blood!

Do you mean you were attacked from behind?

And in the midst of it all stood a middle-aged man and woman in their bedclothes, arguing violently.

When you get right down to it, if you're a woman, being killed by someone you love is the most ordinary murder of all.