Quotes About Violence

Guadalupe Fuentes: --They're not paid to kill honest people, to shoot for no good reasons. Rubenia Fuentes: --Ah, my little girl, then why do you think they give them those big guns that look like tree branches and are larger than they themselves? To shoot, baby, to shoot. Because if they don't, that gives rise to talk that the authorities are useless, are nothing more than decoration.

The Ku Klux Klan is the invisible government of the United States," he told his followers at Liberty Hall in 1922, and it "represents to a great extent the feelings of every real white American.

Los héroes siempre juegan a matar.

Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture…. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Power grows from the barrel of a gun.

Mange tiår senere mintes Springsteen: En tur på byen i helgen innebar alltid en fare for å bli banket opp av en vilt fremmed som ikke hadde sans for klesstilen din.

Boys like to fight, and of course, it's in their nature. But as they grow up and their vocabulary expands, they will find the right words to express themselves and the violence will subside. Brutality is just the result of frustration, the incapacity to express oneself in words. Without words, people often resort to fists.

Brutality is just the result of frustration, the incapacity to express oneself in words. Without words, people often resort to fists.

For example instead of "Thou shall not kill," try "Thou shall not murder." There's a big difference between those two, and you had better learn it. If you believe in the not-kill part, you're fucked if you meet someone who doesn't. If you adhere to the not-murder view, however, you can, if necessary, kill someone.

Criminal violence is the largest percentage of so-called self-defense cases lawyers will handle.

But there's good news, folks. If you play your cards right in situations like the one above, you can avoid violence altogether most of the time. What's more, you can do so without having to back down or feeling like a wimp. These are the social dynamics this book is going to teach you.

A very good summation is: Self-defense is when you have no other good option. Fighting is when you're part of the problem. If the cop decides and the prosecutor can sell that you were involved in the creation of circumstances that led to violence, you're screwed – especially if they're right.

The first component of self-defense, "understanding violence

There are a number of models. The one we like is Rory Miller's social and asocial violence. It's quick, easy to remember, and– most importantly– it's something you can apply in an actual situation.

Rory breaks violence into two main categories, social and asocial.

The bad news is if someone is charging you, it can take multiple shots before the collective trauma causes him to collapse. In the meantime, he can still potentially close the distance and bury a knife in your chest. That's known as the "Deadman's Ten" (when someone fatally wounded can still keep attacking anywhere from ten seconds up to two minutes).

There's an old Irish saying: Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose.

run through by a spear-wielding St Edmund,

before being stabbed, strangled and cremated; men hanged with dogs and horses in sacred groves.