The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that...
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burde...
It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one mi...
The perpetrator is a person. He’s got blood flowing in his or her veins. Does it matter if he or she is Black or White? What does it count if the perpetrator is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or what have you? Does the person’s sexuality matter...
The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpe...
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.
It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander. It is tempting to say that a Nazi m...
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
In cases of organized and multi-perpetrator abuse when the abuse occurs in the context of rituals and ceremonies, some elements of the experience may have been staged specifically with the intention of encouraging the disbelief of others if the victi...
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.
