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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.