Violence Quotes - Page 18

• The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Struggle, Loss

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.134, PublicAffairs

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• Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!

  Denise Chavez

  Real, War, Our World

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• To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

  Primo Levi

  Men, Looks, Sides

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

  Guy Debord

  Army, Police, Abundance

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.33, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Political, Down And

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• Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• Violence doesn't equal strength.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Equal

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

  Paul Krugman

  Hate, Past, Violent Acts

  "Assassination Attempt In Arizona". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. January 8, 2011.

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• We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

  Layne Staley

  Kids, Eye, Shoes

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• What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Giving, Males, Defense

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• Random violence is incredibly infectious

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Random Violence, Literature

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• Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Iraq, Hatred, Enough

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• The germ of creation lies in violence.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Lying, Germs, Creation

  Rudolfo Anaya (2015). “Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

  Mark Millar

  Thinking, Issues, Interesting

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• I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Kids, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

  Murray Rothbard

  Organization, Use, Coercion

  Murray Newton Rothbard (19??). “The Anatomy of the State”, p.11, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

  Edmund Leach

  Men, Creating, Forever

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• One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

  Janos Bolyai

  Conformity, Chimera, Models

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• The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Paradox, Intolerance, Century

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• It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

  Norman Jewison

  Glowing, Males, Want

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• Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Vegetarian, Cruelty

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• Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Believe, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 22, 2012

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• War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Opponents, Acts Of Violence

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.7, Aegitas

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• The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Political, Insane, Information

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• Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Law, Data, Pirate

  Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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