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Quotes About Violence

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!
~ L. Neil Smith
The cause of the riots were the rioters
~ Dan Quayle
Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.
~ Ray Davies
Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.
~ Charlie Pierce
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.
~ Joseph Sobran
You can't separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?
~ Michelle Templet
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
~ Richard Engel
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
~ Averroes
Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
~ Emanuel Steward
HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.
~ Sean Strub
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
~ Joseph Stalin
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
~ Al Capone
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
~ Adolf Hitler
When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.
~ Siad Barre
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
~ Plutarch
While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.
~ Jim Norton
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.
~ Carl Jung
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
~ William Cobbett
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
~ Marianne Williamson