Quotes About Violence

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

The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means

If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal order of the poem itself. By taking the paraphrase as our point of stance, we misconceive the function of metaphor and meter. We demand logical coherences where they are sometimes irrelevant, and we fail frequently to see imaginative coherences on levels where they are highly relevant.

White spume flew its ghost against the glass.

You got the firing squad?" "No, that's inhuman—those guys can miss and they gutshoot you. You hang a man, that knot can slip and he can strangle. Electric chair, he sizzles, been known to catch fire. Gas chamber, he pukes and yells. Texas is more modern. Here we drug a man, then inject cyanide into a vein. They say it doesn't hurt. No one's ever come back to say yea or nay." Pedro

Killing another human being is not something you get used to. It takes away their life and subtracts something from your own, a fine layer of your humanity.

Its a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have.

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.

So grizzly an act

In overly mythologizing our ancestors, we forget an all-too-important reality: the vast majority were ordinary people, which is to say they were people just like everyone else. This ordinariness is only shameful when used to legitimate oppression. This is its own quiet violence.

In whichever way a democratic system might be sick, terrorism does not heal it, it kills it. Democracy is healed with democracy. —VIRGINIO ROGNONI,

and the main reason he was so easily forgotten is that a Gestapo officer blew his brains out.

fraternité: "Be my brother or I will kill you.

The only answer to Hitler was a contrary violence.

Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at least one duel; most of them had engaged in several.

Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten.

Der Guerillero besetzt das Land, der Terrorist besetzt das Denken.

Übertreibung und Maßlosigkeit im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus diskreditiert den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus.

Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

what she found terrifying was the incoherence of his tirade, because she thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.

More than the threatening tone, what she found terrifying was the incoherence of his tirade, because she thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.