Quotes About Violence

It seems impossible that good people – so many good people – can exist in the same world where men shoot up whole families at birthday parties and then stand over their corpses and eat their chicken.

One of the very first bullets comes in through the open window above the toilet where Luca is standing.

Luca has difficulty reconciling all the genuine kindness of strangers. It seems impossible that good people—so many good people—can exist in the same world where men shoot up whole families at birthday parties and then stand over their corpses and eat their chicken.

All the way from Chiapas to Chihuahua, they cling to the tops of the cars. The train has earned the name La Bestia because that journey is a mission of terror in every way imaginable. Violence and kidnapping are endemic along the tracks, and apart from the criminal dangers, migrants are also maimed or killed every day when they fall from the tops of the trains. Only the poorest and most destitute of people attempt to travel this way.

They are manned by gangs or narcotraficantes or police (who may also be narcotraficantes) or soldiers (who may also be narcotraficantes) or, in recent years, by autodefensas—armed militias formed by the inhabitants of certain towns to protect their communities from cartels. And these autodefensas may also, of course, be narcotraficantes.

And finally, there's the ubiquity of ordinary human violence: You can die by beating or stabbing or shooting. Robbery is a foregone conclusion. Mass abductions for ransom are commonplace. Often, kidnappers torture their victims to help persuade their families to pay. On

The unsolved-crime rate in Mexico is well north of 90 percent. The costumed existence of la policía provides the necessary counterillusion to the fact of the cartel's actual impunity.

Luca has difficulty reconciling all the genuine kindness of strangers. It seems impossible that good people—so many good people—can exist in the same world where men shoot up whole families at birthday parties and then stand over their corpses and eat their chicken. There's a frazzling thrum of confusion that arcs out of Luca's brain when he tries to make those two facts sit side by side.

from the glass, 'Abuela,' and renews his attack

If a tourist mecca like Acapulco could fall, then nowhere in Mexico was safe.

It's a common tactic for bad actors to ride the trains posing as migrants, working to gain the trust of unsuspecting travelers, so they can lure them into a secluded place where they can commit some violence against them.

Film is like a battleground: There's love, hate, action, violence, death. In one word, emotions.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Un miros de s?rac, un miros de violen??, de necesitatea de a parveni.

avec ses lourdes pertes humaines, est de toutes les civilisations et de tous les temps. Les religions elles-mêmes sont souvent à l'origine de ces tueries que pourtant elles dénoncent, comme il en fut jadis au temps des croisades et des guerres de Religion, voire, aujourd'hui, de l'islamisme extrême. C'est qu'entre-temps les hommes, poussés par l'immémorial instinct de pouvoir, se sont approprié le fait religieux et en ont fait leur affaire. Au

contemporaine. Aristote plaide déjà pour un régime républicain où l'autorité s'exerce par la loi et non par la force. Athènes, modèle premier de la démocratie, conjure le recours à la violence. Et Confucius, dans la Chine ancienne, plaide pour la loi liant harmonieusement et pacifiquement l'homme à la nature. C'est à partir de la Renaissance qu'en Occident analyses et énergies convergent pour juguler le

Adossée à cette philosophie aujourd'hui dominante, la violence est partout. Depuis le célèbre

le fait religieux peut être analysé comme un antidote à la violence. La nouveauté de la pensée de cet auteur lui a valu de devoir se réfugier, comme d'autres spécialistes français des sciences humaines – Paul Ricœur et Michel Serres, par exemple – aux États-Unis pour poursuivre ses recherches, ces sciences étant alors en France exclusivement construites autour du marxisme, du freudisme et du structuralisme.

chapitre xviii Aux sources des religions La thèse développée par l'anthropologue français René Girard dans La Violence et le Sacré 1 , et dans Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde 2 , illustre la manière dont, des religions traditionnelles les plus anciennes

L'ultime réponse à la violence et à l'agressivité serait donc un vrai projet de civilisation, lequel n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts mais qui devrait – qui devra ! – devenir, à travers l'éducation et la télévision, la priorité des priorités ! Un processus

Evoking the events of 10 May 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared: We all know that books burn. But we know still better that books can never be destroyed by fire. Men die, but books never die. No man and no violence can extinguish their memory. No man and no violence can lock ideas up for ever in a concentration camp. No man and no violence can chase from the world the works that express the eternal struggle of humanity against tyranny. We know that, in this War, books are weapons.

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

It was a genuine revelation, you see," said Aimée to the baron. "They can be killed. The real assholes can be killed.