Quotes About Violence

LYNCHING STATES Mississippi, 15; Arkansas, 8; Virginia, 5; Tennessee, 15; Alabama, 12; Kentucky, 12; Texas, 9; Georgia, 19; South Carolina, 5; Florida, 7; Louisiana, 15; Missouri, 4; Ohio, 2; Maryland, 1; West Virginia, 2; Indiana, 1; Kansas, 1; Pennsylvania, 1.

LYNCHED FOR NO OFFENSE Perhaps the most characteristic feature of this record of lynch law for the year 1893, is the remarkable fact that five human beings were lynched and that the matter was considered of so little importance that the powerful press bureaus of the country did not consider the matter of enough importance to ascertain the causes for which they were hanged.

Then these lynchers went quietly away and the bodies of the woman and three men were taken out and buried with as little ceremony as men would bury hogs.

As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Ya que las espadas fueron diseñadas para matar, hicieron bien en hacerlas con forma de lengua.

I sell mayhem, scandal, murder and doom.

The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians.

With one vicious kick to his head, Dom

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.

Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?

Your brother beat him almost to death, Temujin. He held him and kicked him until he cried like a child. He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.

killing if they were to survive. All the things that gentled a man had been left behind. Humour, decency, a sense of fairness – all those made him weak when another tried to cut his head from his shoulders. Xanthippus

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

KENnEDY SHOT. OSWALD SHOT TOO.

Working together, as parents, neighbors, and law enforcement officials, we must dedicate ourselves to preventing senseless violence in our communities.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Where they make a desert, they call it peace.

A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall. A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' ("Jane Brown's Body")

The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent. Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay. She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer. ("Mind Over Murder")

La guerrilla es de todos los tiempos y todas las latitudes y el ocupante no dejará de ser nunca el enemigo para toda alma bien nacida, lo mismo que ocupación significa siempre violencia.