“I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.” BelieveI BelieveCrimePeriodsUltimateViolentPenaltiesDeath PenaltyDeterrentViolent Crimes Author:Troy King
“I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.” IfsThinkingKnowsTeachImagineStupidPeriodsWeaknessIntelligentRageViolentTreatedImagine ThatFrustratedSubliminal Author:Martin Amis
“It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.” IfsKnowsWellsChildrenLongHas BeensStatesSpeakSubjectsEmotionalTaughtPeriodsRegardSurprisePainfulViolentIdiotPeculiarDreadConfrontingFinalityIrrevocableBewildermentPainless Author:William Faulkner
“The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in what I called Orientalism. The study of the Other has a lot to do with the control and dominance of Europe and the West generally in the Islamic world. And it has persisted because it's based very, very deeply in religious roots, where Islam is seen as a kind of competitor of Christianity.” WorldKindReligiousChristianityStudyPeriodsEuropeRootsWestIslamViolentIslamicIrrationalThreateningCompetitorsDominanceVery DeepLustfulOrientalism Author:Edward Said
“One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.” PoliticalLostChurchPartyEconomicPeriodsMembersUnionsViolentSovietSoviet Union Author:George Pattison