Violence Quotes
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around (Violence Quotes)
Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down (Violence Quotes)
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence (Violence Quotes)
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence - it is unshakeable (Violence Quotes)
I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence (Violence Quotes)
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism (Violence Quotes)
You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue (Violence Quotes)
It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way (Violence Quotes)
Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue! (Violence Quotes)
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion (Violence Quotes)
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too (Violence Quotes)
The Deuteronomists had made violence an option in the Judeo Christian religion. It would always be possible to make these scriptures endorse intolerant policies (Violence Quotes)
Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is (Violence Quotes)
No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous (Violence Quotes)
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting (Violence Quotes)
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do (Violence Quotes)
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling (Violence Quotes)
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf (Violence Quotes)
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm (Violence Quotes)
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! (Violence Quotes)
It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race (Violence Quotes)
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society (Violence Quotes)
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience (Violence Quotes)
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will (Violence Quotes)
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them (Violence Quotes)
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living (Violence Quotes)
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent (Violence Quotes)
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love (Violence Quotes)
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom (Violence Quotes)
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence (Violence Quotes)