#guns

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#culture #guns #war #life

I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements—and found that they called themselves Gush Emunim or—it sounded just as bad in English—'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they took the land because god had given it to them from time immemorial. In the noisome town of Hebron, where all of life is focused on a supposedly sacred boneyard in a dank local cave, one of the world's less pretty sights is that of supposed yeshivah students toting submachine guns and humbling the Arab inhabitants. When I asked one of these charmers where he got his legal authority to be a squatter, he flung his hand, index finger outstretched, toward the sky. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#belarus #colonialism #god #guns #gush-emunim

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#compassion #guns #love #non-violence #peace

The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this ↗

— Seth Tucker

#fighting #guns #monsters #werewolves #men

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#rights #violence #men

A free people ought...to be armed ↗

— George Washington

#right-to-bear-arms #second-amendment #free

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? ↗

— Mae West

#naughty #risque #salutation #guns

Warner was supposed to be dead. Warner was supposed to be dead because I was supposed to have shot him but no one supposed I'd need to know how to fire a gun so now I suppose he's come to find me. He's come to fight. For me. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#unravel-me #warner #guns

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. ↗

— Al Capone

#guns

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#fightclub #unicorn #guns