I would like to urge both parties to show maximum restraint, to desist from acts of violence, the use of force and cease all offensive operations.

The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of human cruelty – the realm of history – it is utterly abstract. The...

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

Poverty advances discrimination and corruption because society classifies the rich and poor. Poverty augments anger, selfishness, hatred and envy among the people.Poverty entwined with desperation ends up in violence.” – Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from...

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth.

The philosophy of taking up arms to kill for God is the worst blasphemy any man or group of men can ever invent as an excuse to snuff out human life

I am glad,” he said, “that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak, men fight with men when they meet – men of different races – but their...

You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.

Being a mercenary, though… Hey, we just go wherever there’s a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer.Even the people you’re paid to shoot at?Well, yeah. There are...

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in...

and you play with knives…

I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential grievability of lives, so war has come to frame ways of thinking multiculturalism...

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike back because we assume that we must defend ourselves, defend our name, our...

We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only from our humility can learn to be redeemers, can learn to work together in...

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain’t a heck of a way to be in...

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

But in terms of “psychological” time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears.

If there isn’t at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is mirrored in the pattern of grotesque raping in areas of outright conflict from...

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our...

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence – the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

We live in a culture of violence.

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person’s way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and...

Don’t you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport...

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

You barbarians!’ he yelled. ‘I’ll sue the council for every penny it’s got! I’ll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled…until…until…until…until you’ve had enough.’Ford was running after him. Very very fast.’And then...

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is...

Sex and violence: the greatest duo since the Three Stooges.

It’ll turn me into a weapon,’ I say, my voice suddenly loud. ‘All you got to do is curl your hands into fists and you turn into a weapon,’ says Jim. ‘Your body is just...

Her eyes widen and she shoves me back and then there’s a space between us, enough to paralyze me with all of the things I could do to her next. I could raise my hand...

We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.Cross it? I’m making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this–that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply...

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the...

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

We’re not suggesting that Mr. Roberts condones clinic violence.

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the desert sands, and pacing the margin of the sea, and chasing...