Armed Violence Quotes

#1. Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

Guy Debord

#2. Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence.

Widad Akreyi

#3. Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.

Vernon Richards

#4. Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

Widad Akreyi

#5. Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

Widad Akreyi

#6. War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

Scott Nearing

#7. What led to September 11 is that most decision makers in the White House thought like you. They supported despotic regimes in the Middle East to multiply the profits of oil and arms companies, and armed violence escalated and reached our shores.

Alaa Al Aswany

#8. Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

L. Neil Smith

#10. No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

Friedrich Engels

#11. Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them.

John McGinnis

#12. Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Joe Abercrombie

#13. In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

June Jordan

#14. Death, displacement and injury caused by conflicts constitute one of the most devastating epidemics of our age.

Widad Akreyi

#15. As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#16. In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

Herman Kahn

#17. And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

John Steinbeck

#18. It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party, it is only the working class through armed revolution, through violence, that can and must bury the traitorous revisionists.

Enver Hoxha

#19. Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

#20. North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more devastating violence than that of armed groups, even if the latter are spectacular.

Tariq Ramadan

#21. 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.

Alan Gottlieb

#22. Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Malcolm X

#23. I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.

Andreas Baader

#25. It was not the money that was my main motive; it was the challenge and the thrill where I got my kicks. Armed robbery to me was like a sport. To take on an armored vehicle with two armed security guards - it was like an athlete attending the Olympic Games.

Drexel Deal

#26. A heavily armed nation prone to violence finds it only reasonable to give law officers weapons and the authority to use them. In the United States, only a cop has the right to kill as an act of personal deliberation and action. To

David Simon

#27. Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

Angelina Jolie

#28. Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

Harry Browne

#29. Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city - we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

Elizabeth Edwards

#31. If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Marcus Tullius Cicero