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Quotes About Gratuitous

Thwart, I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. Sarissa said. It is today.
~ Jim Butcher
Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.
~ Jim Butcher
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.
~ Jim Butcher
How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells—some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim—when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted.
~ Piers Anthony
Ninety percent of the time when you see rape on the television it is gratuitous and there to either bolster viewing figures or as a lazy way of treating female cast.
~ Douglas Henshall
I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.
~ Michael Biehn
My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
~ Michael Biehn
A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.
~ Ray Wise
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
~ Bobby Farrelly
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
~ Simone Weil
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
~ Man Ray
Although we may deplore the film's scatological language, sexual explicitness and gratuitous gore as seemingly designed only to shock, in the manner of an angry, attention-craving child, we must remember that this movie was actually made by an angry, attention-craving child.
~ Mark Leyner
Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
~ Simone Weil