We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part – a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty...

The absolute defining moment of my life was the day the drug deal went bad. It started out just like any other day, at least for the girlfriend of a dealer. However, this time, it...

The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped...

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

He is being investigated for allegations of threatening violence, excessive use of force, possession of maybe an illegal weapon and violating the electoral process.

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

I chose not to fight it. Eating them…is my revenge.

The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true “peace...

I often find myself in a room full of strangers, and very often it’s a tough crowd. But I’m a master networker, so for me, prison isn’t such a big deal. A smile extends much...

We can’t win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as...

A day came when I should have died,and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral. If one man has no right to impose his wishes on another, then ten million men have no right to impose their wishes on the...

Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim–in fact, the majority–who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their...

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one’s soul, even experienced vicariously in the body of another who is...

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of...

The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The state is all of us. But freedom does not mean the freedom to...

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer’s views of love are flawed. Love can’t be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish...

That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of...

I know you didn’t see the violence and need for control in him in the beginning, but I’m sure it was there. Nothing you did turned him into such an abusive man. And you …...

Repeat one word of what I just said and I’ll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women...

It is a terrible thing to witness death by violence, a thousand times worse to hold a man’s life in your own hands and to willingly, consciously take it from him. Acknowledged or not, something...

It appears that the level of violence was well below the last election.

The prime minister continues to demonize us. We will continue to pray and to resist, but we will do all of these things without violence. The real violence is destroying homes and throwing out the...

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent crime. Violence requires all different kinds of energy, and most drug addicts like to expend their energy not on...

Violence should have no place in life but within the pages of an engaging novel.

These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of...

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

[Merlin – on realizing the he’d killed a man with his magic.]It was easy. It shouldn’t have been so easy to do something so big. … So final…[Gaius] …Oh Merlin! With magic or without it...

No! Wait! I’ve got a better idea…””Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.””And your point is…””Let’s broaden the definition of ‘necessary’.”-Sergeant Schlock & Captain Tagon

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

He’d shot and beaten people because he couldn’t talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, ‘He was a man who didn’t believe in violence, He’s a good man… and dead.

Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both....

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.”(Young India, 22 October 1925)

it is against our interests and it only increases the violence in this region.