“How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.” MenChildrenDoeCountryLawDiesRealizingPerfectViolenceGunTragedyVictimMadCriminalsZoneLocationCan NotMad Men Author:Alan Gottlieb
“There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.” ReasonViolenceCrimeVictimCriminalsReasonableNo ReasonPrecautionReason To LiveNo Reason To Live Author:Marc MacYoung
“No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?” HappensWonderViolenceStreetsCriminalsViolentPolicemenRioViolent Criminals Author:Jose Padilha
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” InspirationalDoeWarEvilPeaceViolenceObjectsCriminalsGoodPermanentGood And EvilTemporaryAnti WarAntiwarNonviolenceDomestic ViolenceNon ViolenceCriminal MindPeace WarViolence Against WomenGreat WarPeacemakingBeing At PeaceGood Vs EvilActs Of ViolenceEvil ThingsGood Against EvilViolence And PeaceGood EvilBest Criminal MindsViolence And WarPhysical ViolenceGood WarPolice ViolenceEvil WorldPolitical ViolenceCycle Of ViolenceSocial EvilsEvils Of WarMedia ViolenceDestroying Ourselves Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.” FightingViolenceCriminalsViolence Against Women Author:Samantha Power
“How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves” ShouldFoundFatherRightsViolenceMankindEqualMercyPrivilegeConvincedCriminalsOppressionGuiltyFraudDistributionBenevolenceBrethrenCaptivityGroaningRights And PrivilegesDetaining Author:Benjamin Banneker
“Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.” NeedsAcceptingViolenceVictimCriminalsFormerPerpetratorsCulpabilityFamily Violence Author:Leslie Morgan Steiner
“We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.” PeopleDifferentCountryEnoughProblemHandsActionAmericaPoliticsNationsEasyCommunityDifferencesCommonViolenceDangerousHuman NaturePolicyMassEthicsGunMental HealthFolksCriminalsViolentCommon SenseShootingOther CountriesEasy To GetSusceptibleHealth ProblemsMass Shootings Author:Barack Obama
“The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.” KindPoliticsIndividualSawsViolenceBehaviorDestructionExcuseActivismCriminalsStatementsHandfulNo ExcusesBaltimoreLootingCriminal Behavior Author:Barack Obama
“If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess them, and doesn't infringe on those rights, I would consider that. But all the proposals I've seen do not achieve that goal. And we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in the USA. Violence in our society is the problem.” IfsImportantProblemHandsLawOpportunityGoalRightsViolenceAchieveMissingProduceCitizensProtectGunCriminalsDebateGoldenUsaOur SocietyProposalAbidingLaw Abiding CitizenGolden Opportunity Author:Marco Rubio
“There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.” HomeViolenceDrugAbuseCriminalsBackgroundsTendenciesExposure Author:Andrew Solomon
“If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.” PeopleIfsWayFirstsBelieveLawTurnsLeftI BelieveLinesViolenceCitizensGunCriminalsReducingAbidingConcealedOutlawGun ViolenceLaw Abiding CitizenConcealed Carry Author:Gary Johnson
“A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.” MenMayWarReasonViolenceMankindSecurityCommittedCriminalsDestroyedBeastLionsSavagesUnjustTigersSlaughter Book:The Second Treatise on Civil Government Source: The Second Treatise on Civil Government
“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.” HumansLyingEmotionGreaterViolencePlanetsCitizensEgoNormalRootsCriminalsInsaneInsanityCollectivesRespectableIdentificationDerangedThoughts And Emotions Author:Eckhart Tolle
“We have to enforce the laws we've already got, make sure that we're keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, those who are mentally ill. I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally.” TryingWarHandsLawBeliefViolenceShareStreetsConversationWeaponsGunTheaterSoldierIllCriminalsMentally Ill Author:Barack Obama
“We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.” PlayCareAttentionRolesToo MuchFocusViolenceGunTake CareCriminalsTendenciesGun ViolenceOffenders Author:James Florio
“A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.” ShowsStudyRecordsViolenceNewsGunShotsCriminalsFallenReportsVirginiaFirearmsGun Violence Author:Fred Thompson
“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.” ThinkingTryingMindDesireEasyMy OwnLossAudienceViolenceChildhoodHappeningsVictimCriminalsInnocenceShockLoss Of Innocence Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.” HumansPhilosophyBeautifulViolenceFiguresGeniusDestructionCriminalsConstructionSublimeMurdererMonstrousMisreading Author:Richard Marshall
“The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.” PeopleWorldShouldLawWinningViolenceCitizensGunFilledCriminalsDecentGun ControlAbidingRight To Bear ArmsGun ViolenceBearing ArmsPro GunFounding Fathers GunAnti GunLaw Abiding CitizenGun LawPro Gun ControlShooting GunsCarrying GunsAbiding Love Author:James Earl Jones
“There are criminal aliens in this country who have come into this country who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives.” CountryViolenceCriminalsAliensAmerican Life Author:Mike Pence
“America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.” ShouldStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesViolenceGunFlowOrganizationSouthIncludingCriminalsCashMexicoNorth AmericaSmugglingMoney Laundering Author:Alan Bersin
“It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only to anti-state acts of violence. The failure to include terrorism as a distinct crime was due to the inability to agree upon its proper definition.” IfsStatesViolenceSubjectsCrimeAgreeCourtInternationalDefinitionsTerrorismDuesCriminalsDefinedDesirableInabilityActs Of ViolenceJurisdictionAgree Upon Author:Richard A. Falk
“Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.” HumanityViewsIssuesViolenceThreatCriminalsIsisStrategicNuisance Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski