Violence Quotes

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

~ Wendy Mcelroy

Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply ingrained, nay, buried dreams come true. The unlimited radiates its magic even upon crime, which, not coincidentally, is the main source of entertainment in Eumeswil. I, as an anarch, not uninterested but disinterested, can understand that. Freedom has a wide range and more facets than a diamond.

~ Ernst Jünger

To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate.

~ Tennessee West

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

We know how the people of Argentina ruined their country. We know how the people of Venezuela ruined their country. Few Americans know much about the history of Argentina or Venezuela. But if they wish to know how the people of the USA are ruining their own country, all they have to do is look around themselves, including, in most cases, looking in the mirror.

~ Robert Higgs

In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one’s own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and removed from society.

~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.

~ Ayn Rand

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

~ Howard Tayler

Maxim 37: There is no overkill. There is only open fire and reload.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

~ Howard Tayler

Hi. I'm here to enlist.You can't. You aren't human.You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like interspeciated workplaces. We're a crack company of space mercenaries. We do hurting people and breaking things.Sounds like my kind of fun.-Schlock & Lieutenant Der Trihs

~ Howard Tayler

When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

~ Howard Tayler

So you're a fellow mercenary, then.Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?Don't ask for that. All it means is that you might get to face the person who kills you. . . But only if it's convenient.

~ Howard Tayler

Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

~ Howard Tayler

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon

~ Howard Tayler

No! Wait! I've got a better idea...Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.And your point is...Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.

~ Howard Tayler

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

~ Max Stirner

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

~ Toni Morrison

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.

~ Alison Larkin

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

~ Leon Trotsky

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

~ Noam Chomsky

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.

~ George W. Bush

The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world's physical laws.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

They [left-wingers] willy-nilly throw around the accusation of Nazism and comparisons to Hitler whenever confronted by any opposition, yet they are today's Nazis in their determination to shut down by threats or violence free speech and assembly.

~ Steve Mccann

So if black power means black armies racing through the streets, creating havoc, that certainly does nothing to advance the legitimate political and economic aspirations of the black community. Just the opposite, in fact....If they think a few Molotov cocktails are going to bring down the whole system and build something new, I'm afraid they're just indulging in wishful-thinking

~ Truman Capote

The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing duly constituted laws. Laws gain their legitimacy from the Constitution. The Constitution gains its legitimacy from something called 'the people.' But how did 'the people' actually grant legitimacy to the Constitution? As the American and French revolutions make clear: basically, through acts of illegal violence. So what gives the police the right to use force to suppress the very thing–a popular uprising–that granted them their right to use force to begin with?

~ David Graeber

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence.

~ Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

~ Khaled Hosseini

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

~ Tori Amos

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to

~ George Sand

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviours, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us.

~ Andrea Dworkin

[Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their mystery had been discharged and the sexual power they instilled in him had dulled... Women were his prey. He was the Minotaur. These were bloody, indecent bullfights from which he always emerged the dazzling victor.

~ Marina Picasso

And maybe it was more than that.Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of this particular man. Maybe it was an involuntary, atavistic response to thousands of years of violence against women. Maybe it was for every rape, every brutal backhanded slap, every other Perry that had come before this one.

~ Liane Moriarty

The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.

~ Steven Pinker