Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

We’re not suggesting that Mr. Roberts condones clinic violence.

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the desert sands, and pacing the margin of the sea, and chasing...

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come...

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.

Here’s a rule of life: You don’t get to pick what bad things happen to you

You can’t talk about fucking in America, people say you’re dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that’s cool.

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn’t granted to him.

Resorting to violence, crackdowns and authoritarian methods, as we see today toward students, are not only illegal and lacking popular, religious and moral legitimacy, but will also bear no result and will only exacerbate the...

The JoeCartoon content is a lot of fun. It’s cool, edgy, would lend itself to a huge range of content on mobile phone handsets – and don’t get me started on videogames. Instead of rescuing...

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest’s servant, our hearts go out...

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as...

The only people who don’t need elevator pitches are elevator salesmen. I once tried to sell an elevator to a man who owned a one-story building. He didn’t buy from me, but he did sell...

There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.

So yes, I think the threat of violence would save lives, innocent lives. I’m sorry to say its true.

My hobby is boxing up all my stuff and then unpacking it and pretending I just moved and I’m getting a fresh start on life. And I make love like a professional boxer, only without...

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps

When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief and never really directed solely at the imbalance that supposedly inspired it. The rule of law...

Everything stayed hidden […] it was all secret – known by anyone who cared to know, but unacknowledged, like a priest’s feverish brightness around adolescent boys, or the beatings Mrs Wilson endured on those Saturdays...

Guns give Evil a means to expression.

there will be no further violence and further escalation.

Violence was a disease Gansey didn’t think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who...

[W]hile the use of non-lethal weapons such as tasers and LEDIs may not necessarily reduce the number of civilian casualties, they have been largely accepted as the humane alternative to deadly force because they make...

We are following with great concern the preparations of the crusaders to launch war on the former capital of Muslims…and to install a puppet government…Fight these despots. I remind you that victory comes only from...

Okay? You wanted me to ask you if you were okay? Jessie, I saw you! How could I think for one second you were okay? Do you think it’s normal for me to watch a...

History is the same story with different costumes.

It is difficult to process the sacred masculine when your closest example has been a man smacking you around, verbally degrading you, lording over you, or otherwise proving a poor demonstration of the use of...

Violence begins when imagination fails.

Hate is self-inflicted torture. It hungers for revenge, damage, division, and violence, but is never satiated. Hate is a psychological hell to which we condemn ourselves and endeavor to burn others.

If there is violence, Sharon’s chances are diminished,

I get it,’ said the prisoner. ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?’If you like.’ said Vimes. ‘But we’re a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in...

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both...

The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence.

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will...

If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances.” ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could...

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Today everyone on our side knows that criminality is not the result of the Algerian’s congenital nature nor the configuration of his nervous system. The war in Algeria and wars of national liberation bring out...

We have warned both parties that, if this violence continues, war is actually going to be inevitable, because this is spiraling out of control. We are very concerned.

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We...

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.

If I were to be elected World Leader someday, I’d wear an outfit made of Band-Aids, as a symbolic gesture of sticking together, healing, and the blood soon to be spilt.

Sword and words—same letters, and same ability to cut down.