I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential;...

A Dick and Jane story written in blood and battered bone.See Spot.See Spot run.See Spot run from a gaping chest wound.Run Spot run.See Detective smear Spot into a baggy for DNA testing.

That’s my town,’ Joaquin said. ‘What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.’ Then, his face grave, ‘There they shot my father. My...

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

[Picasso] loved…women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their...

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this...

This type of random violence is repulsive, and it must not be allowed to go unpunished,

The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the violence committed for wealth is socially invisible or committed at enough of a...

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,Children dying in the road,Crawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her...

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p....

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?Or to the dreadful summit of the cliffThat beetles o’er his base into the sea,And there assume some other horrible formWhich might deprive your sovereignty of...

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.

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.

Oh, they don’t allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary…It contains far too much sex and violence.

REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.

A director’s dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché’s are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho’ I’m a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule...

I think the violence will continue. Alas, we have learned not to believe that deliverance is around the corner. We are at the end of year three of this war and every hope that the...

If you’re going to hit on me, please wear boxing gloves. I get it though, because when I’m dancing it looks like I’m fighting. In the face of violence, I’m just that gentle and sensual.

Grow a garden. When there’s a food shortage in the future, you’ll need it. And when people try to steal your food and you shoot them, you’ll also need a good place to hide the...

He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools,...

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

I both made the knife-fighting team, and I got cut. If only love were so easy to understand.

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said...

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

I don’t ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He’s tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its...

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

to take steps to curb the incitement, curb the violence.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate … Real love has always ended in bloodshed.

I do not blame himfor not knowing the gentleness of my soul.When I only showed him,how violently I loved.

In the preface of ‘The Rifles’… Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing.

You spoke to Nicodemus?’ Vivian asked.[Francesca] ‘We did.’V: ‘And he trusts you?’F: ‘As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.

We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.

Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.