Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The term ‚the American Left‘ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

War settles nothing.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

Big Brother is watching you.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

The world is too violent right now.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.