THERE SEEMS TO BE AN UTTER LACK OF UNDERSTANDING THESE DAYS, THAT IMAGES AND WORDS HAVE MEANINGS AND CONSEQUENCES.

“People tend to pooh-pooh this business about all the vitriol we hear inflaming the American public by people who make a living off doing that. That may be free speech, but it's not without consequences.” 

- Clarence Dupnik, sheriff of Pima County, Arizona

"The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: 

but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked" 

- Proverbs 10:11

"Violence in the voice is often

only the death rattle of reason in the throat."
- John Frederick Boyes

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

- Isaac Asimov

"In violence, we forget who we are."

- Mary McCarthy

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, 

the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand." 

- George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"