Violence Quotes
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur (Violence Quotes)
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 (Violence Quotes)
A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence (Violence Quotes)
I try to write lyrics so that they won’t age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence (Violence Quotes)
She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known (Violence Quotes)
There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day (Violence Quotes)
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept (Violence Quotes)
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence (Violence Quotes)
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not (Violence Quotes)
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic (Violence Quotes)
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government (Violence Quotes)
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence (Violence Quotes)
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence (Violence Quotes)
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave (Violence Quotes)
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this (Violence Quotes)
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies (Violence Quotes)
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence (Violence Quotes)
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence (Violence Quotes)
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity (Violence Quotes)
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security (Violence Quotes)
When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination (Violence Quotes)
When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead (Violence Quotes)
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence (Violence Quotes)
Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for (Violence Quotes)
It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you (Violence Quotes)
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater (Violence Quotes)
One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate (Violence Quotes)
Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life (Violence Quotes)
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed (Violence Quotes)
It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly (Violence Quotes)