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.

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.

It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It’s the...

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.