violence quotes

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

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

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

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.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

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.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

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

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

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

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

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 is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

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

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

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

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

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

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

War settles nothing.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

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

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

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

War is the business of barbarians.

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.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

The world is too violent right now.

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.

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

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

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.