Violence Quotes
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We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don’t realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you (Violence Quotes)
Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle (Violence Quotes)
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you’re on. But now and then there’s nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan (Violence Quotes)
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after (Violence Quotes)
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other (Violence Quotes)
What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love (Violence Quotes)
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth (Violence Quotes)
If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us (Violence Quotes)
I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth (Violence Quotes)
I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct (Violence Quotes)
I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one’s body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match (Violence Quotes)
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with (Violence Quotes)
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision (Violence Quotes)
There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity (Violence Quotes)
No amount of violence you’ve done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself (Violence Quotes)
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence (Violence Quotes)
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem (Violence Quotes)
All violence flows from the same source... the need for power. Power is the only true morality... the only deathless God, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment (Violence Quotes)
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence (Violence Quotes)
The violence in society, I’m afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top (Violence Quotes)
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor’s historic threat of violence against capital (Violence Quotes)
There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children (Violence Quotes)
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience (Violence Quotes)
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender (Violence Quotes)
The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible (Violence Quotes)
When you talk about revolution, it’s very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind (Violence Quotes)
Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency (Violence Quotes)
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them (Violence Quotes)
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy (Violence Quotes)
You can’t get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama (Violence Quotes)