“Where's my knife? Who took my fucking knife? What do I look like, fucking terrorist? Is this funny? What the fuck is WRONG with you people? Where the fuck- get the fuck away from me! GET AWAY! WHERE IS MY KNIFE? God, you can't... you can't do that! You don't take somebody's knife when they need it!”— Gia Carangi, imdb.com
“We only have to look at the era in Greece 400 years before Christ. The city of Sparta was a military fortress where everything revolved around war and violence. As a matter of fact, it was all right to steal as long as one didn't get caught. Nothing of much value came from that city, unlike Athens o…”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.”— Alfred Nobel, alfrednobel.org
“It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life -- for all it's material good fortune -- has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent.”— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com
“If war were purely and absolutely bad in every single aspect and toxic in all its effects, it would probably not happen as often as it does. But in addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly into…”— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com
“Define terrorism: in Barcelona, 13 dead in an attack by alleged ISIS-inspired group. In the PH, 25 dead overnight in the hands of police.”— Atom Araullo, twitter.com
“Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.”— Charles Barkley, books.google.com
“These are not ordinary kids who were bullied into retaliation...These are not ordinary kids who played too many video games. These are not ordinary kids who just wanted to be famous. These are simply not ordinary kids. These are kids with serious psychological problems.”— Peter Langman, usatoday30.usatoday.com
“Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination.”— Pat Robertson, finalcall.com
“Asking protestors to remain non-violent as Nazis approach them is in effect, asking those of us who are the target of Nazi violence, to be willing to die for the sake of liberal sensibilities. You don’t have to support violence yourself or go out and punch a Nazi, but do not ask marginalized people…”— Abdullah Shihipar, qz.com
“Anti-fascist violence is fundamentally misunderstood. Dismissed as reckless and unnecessary, it is actually a last resort tactic that is born out of necessity and meticulous planning. Anti fascist protestors are not terrorists; if anything, they are heroes. They put their bodies on the line, risking…”— Abdullah Shihipar, qz.com
“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group…”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“There is a red and angry world... Red things happen there. The world eats your wife... Eats your friends... Eats all the things... that make you human... And you become a monster. And the world... just keeps on eating.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or…”— Ron Paul, books.google.com
“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.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com