The last few years I’ve always felt like the people who take these things totally casually have some greater strength than I do. But I am grateful that I’m totally shaken. I’m grateful that I can still be shocked by this — by any — level of violence.
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Quotes tagged ‘Violence’
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
One of the most common fantasies I have heard from many of the most violent prison inmates is the scenario of going to their deaths in a hail of gunfire while killing as many people as possible before they selves die... In the prisons and on the streets of the United States, such behavior appears to…
President Nicolas Sarkozy's refusal to remove his forces from Afghanistan is nothing but a green light for killing the French hostages. We repeat the same message to you: The release of your prisoners in the hands of our brothers is linked to the withdrawal of your soldiers from our country.
The day America will take such decision to execute Mohammed and any others it would have taken a decision to execute whoever we capture.
Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.
It’s time to get serious about our response. Either we’re fighting to win or we’re going to continue to be big losers.
Our country is totally divided and our enemies are watching. We are not looking good, we are not looking smart, we are not looking tough!
To resort to violence in view of outrageous events or conditions is enormously tempting because of the immediacy and swiftness inherent in it. It goes against the grain of rage and violence to act with deliberate speed; but this does not make it irrational. On the contrary, in private as well as pub…
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them. This is what Madison meant when he said, ‘all governments rest on opinion,’ a statement that is no less true for the various forms of m…
Will we recover? Yes. For violence, like Achilles’ lance, can heal the wounds that it has inflicted.
You will have to fight, or rot in concentration camps.
Our victims know us by their scars and by their chains, and it is this that makes their evidence irrefutable.
Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his humanity.
I want you to know the 24-hour news cycle moves on — I won’t. This is so important to who we are, what kind of nation we are making for our children and our grandchildren. As President Obama said yesterday, and as we all know in our hearts to be true: We are better than this. And if we push hard eno…
Let’s ask ourselves, what can I do? What can I personally do to stop violence and promote justice? How can I show that your life matters to me? That I have a stake in your safety and wellbeing?
It's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
If the only time you have a public opinion on civil violence in this country is when police face harm or sadly, death, then you come across as disingenuous, your intentions, suspicious, and your perspective, riddled with bias and prejudice. Empathy is not a limited resource.
The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don’t we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we’re going to hav…
Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a black person ten times, the bleeding stops and the healing begins the moment the assailant drops the knife. We believe white dominance to be a fact of the inert past, a delinquent debt that can be made to disappear if only…