Violence Quotes - Page 5

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

Blaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.