Armed violence Quotes

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

Self-defense through gunslinging is a delusion .... Those who carry guns for self-protection keep widening the circle of violence.

We really don’t have a gun problem here as they do in Africa, Asia or South America. There people actually go to work with an AK47 slung over their shoulder…. In Iraq for example, every family is allowed to have one weapon and they almost always choose and AK47…. The United States, in contrast, has a very transparent arms system.

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

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.

I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

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.

The inability of governments to take seriously the damage caused by small arms and light weapons is a failure of major proportions.

Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.

I do not consider firearms as weapons. When I think weapon, I mean bazooka.

I asked Joe Weixlmann why he would print a death threat like that in light of the fact that there are all of these armed ideological nuts wandering around loose. He said that for him, to "ice" someone means to reprimand them.

The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.