John Howard Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

  John Howard

  Important, Liberty, Alive

  National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

• If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.

  John Howard

  Christian, War, Negative

• I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

  John Howard

  Taken, Blow, Thinking

  National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

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