Quotes About Violence

We would have never gotten mace had someone not thought, There must be a good way to burn someone's eyes.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

War is just one more big government program.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.