Quotes About Violence

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

This is a powerful message from our government: we will not be intimidated by bombs; we will not be intimidated by poison; this is America, if you're a violent, paranoid lunatic, you must use a gun!

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as the terrorists who cause the attacks.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.

The British government is a murder machine.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".

The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

Happiness is a warm gun.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.