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Quotes About Violence

Bir insan? yaÅŸam?n?n bir saatinden mahrum etmekle, onu yaÅŸam?ndan mahrum etmek aras?nda yaln?zca bir ölçek fark? vard?r. Sonuçta ona kar?? ÅŸiddet uygulam??, onun enerjisini tüketmiÅŸ olursunuz.
~ Frank Herbert
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
~ Frank Herbert
Conozco un esquema profundo que los humanos niegan con la palabra aunque lo afirmen con sus acciones. Dicen que buscan la seguridad y la tranquilidad, condiciones a las que dan el nombre de paz. Incluso mientras hablan, crean semillas de agitación y violencia.
~ Frank Herbert
I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.
~ Frank Herbert
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand.
~ Frank Herbert
Storms beget storms. Rage begets rage. Revenge begets revenge. Wars beget wars.
~ Frank Herbert
He could see it stretching ahead of him, a time of relative quiet in a hidden sietch, a moment of peace between periods of violence.
~ Frank Herbert
the tender indignities of physical love, the sharing and communion of selves, the softness and the violence.
~ Frank Herbert
I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it.
~ Frank Herbert
When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence. —Leto II, the God Emperor
~ Frank Herbert
I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it. How boring they find it.
~ Frank Herbert
Choose containable violence when violence cannot be avoided. Better this than epidemic violence. — Lessons of Choice, The BuSab Manual
~ Frank Herbert
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. —Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
~ Frank Herbert
Technology breeds anarchy. It distributes these tools at random. And with them goes the provocation for violence. The ability to make and use savage destroyers falls inevitably into the hands of smaller and smaller groups until at last the group is a single individual." Moneo
~ Frank Herbert
My Fish Speakers are a temporary army in every sense. While they can be violent and vicious, women are profoundly different from men in their dedication to battle. The cradle of genesis ultimately predisposes them to behavior more protective of life. They have proved to be the best keepers of the Golden Path.
~ Frank Herbert
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.
~ Frank Herbert
A certain amount of killing has always been an arm of business
~ Frank Herbert
Toate guvernele sunt confruntate cu o problem? cronic?: puterea exercit? o mare atracÈ›ie asupra naturilor patologice. Nu atât c? puterea corupe, dar ea îi fascineaz? pe indivizii coruptibili. AceÈ™tia au tendinÈ›a de a se îmb?ta cu violen??, ceea ce creeaz? rapid condiÈ›iile unei obiÈ™nuinÈ›e ireversibile.
~ Frank Herbert
Violence builds more violence and the pendulum swings until the violent ones are shattered.
~ Frank Herbert
The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin
~ Frank Herbert
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. —THE APOCRYPHA OF MUAD'DIB
~ Frank Herbert
A threat to kill is unreal--actual blood and shredded flesh has its own reality.
~ Frank M. Robinson
Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.
~ Frank Miller
A gun is a coward's weapon. A liar's weapon.We kill.. too often.. because we've made it easy.. too easy.. sparing ourselves the mess.. and the work..
~ Frank Miller