Quotes with violence

  • Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
  • 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.
  • In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
  • Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
  • They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
  • A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
  • Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
  • Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
  • I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
  • 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.
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • P. D. James A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ronald Laing Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Lenny Bruce All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ban Ki-moon All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • W. H. Auden As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Campbell Brown As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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