Violence Quotes
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence (Violence Quotes)
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible (Violence Quotes)
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence (Violence Quotes)
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body? (Violence Quotes)
If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence (Violence Quotes)
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts (Violence Quotes)
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity (Violence Quotes)
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another (Violence Quotes)
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child (Violence Quotes)
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few (Violence Quotes)
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin (Violence Quotes)
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power (Violence Quotes)
That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity (Violence Quotes)
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style (Violence Quotes)
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel (Violence Quotes)
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times (Violence Quotes)
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation (Violence Quotes)
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars (Violence Quotes)
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity (Violence Quotes)
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech (Violence Quotes)
I don’t require movies to be about good people, and I don’t reject screen violence (Violence Quotes)
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence (Violence Quotes)
The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been (Violence Quotes)
I think I am a very kind person. I think I’m joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence (Violence Quotes)
People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop (Violence Quotes)
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution (Violence Quotes)
All of the violence that doesn’t occur doesn’t get reported on the news (Violence Quotes)
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with (Violence Quotes)
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with (Violence Quotes)
If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important (Violence Quotes)