Violence Trigger Quotes

The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

I'm always fascinated emotionally in the moment that someone pulls a gun, even a cop. That action - I don't know that I, personally, as a human being, could do it.

It was at a gym near Liverpool Street. I came off the street - I was just a kid - and I was just excited about getting to punch someone in the face.

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.

My trigger got no heart.

Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

There is female-on-male spouse abuse. There are women who hit their husbands. But there must have been something that caused that because otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

We're allowing every Eric Harris, every troubled kid out there, to become the next Tim McVeigh.

When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.