Quotes About Violence

we are flooded with the gifts of neighborliness—the economy of the rich devouring the poor is now inappropriate; we are now flooded with peaceable possibility—the old lust for war and violence is now out of sync; we are flooded with fruitfulness—the technological destruction that seeks to sustain our unsustainable standard of living is now passé.

The rat race of such predation and usurpation is a restlessness that issues inescapably in anxiety that is often at the edge of being unmanageable; when pursued vigorously enough, moreover, one is propelled to violence against the neighbor in eagerness for what properly belongs to the neighbor.

commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses . . . along with anxiety and violence.

Thus I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses … along with anxiety and violence.

Gredel tried not to bristle at Caro's attitude. Hitting was what boyfriends did. It was normal. The point was whether they felt sorry afterward.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

Der Natur sind die Tragödien, die sich in ihr abspielen, egal. Noch kein Galgenbaum hat sich darüber aufgeregt, daß Unschuldige an ihm aufgeknüpft wurden. Kein Grashalm eines Schlachtfeldes trauert den Gefallenen nach.

Only rarely did violence directly lead to improvements, however temporary.

An egalitarian society presupposes nonviolence, for violence is the way some are able to deprive others of what is justly theirs. Inequality can only be maintained by violence. The root of violence, moreover, is domination.

Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact.

Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil.

Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.

Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.

No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities.

The ultimate weakness of violence," observed Martin Luther King, Jr., "is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

It set a tone and created a state of min in which greed predominated and disorder and violence were all too frequent.

Slaton heard nothing more than a pair of muffled thumps, sounds he recognized all too well—the lethal signature of high-velocity rounds striking center of mass in a human body. Her tall figure snapped forward and she crumpled to the ground. Slaton instantly knew three things. Astrid was dead. There were two shooters. And he was next.

The war on terrorism can never be won.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Listen, when some asshole pulls a gun on me, he loses his right to a warm milky drink and fucking cuddles, okay?

Men are the invisible victims of America's violence.

The murder-suicide combination of school and other mass shootings is largely young white boys' way of driving off the cliff at the end of mental health's tortuous road. Consider three of the most notorious white male shooters: Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook), Elliott Rodgers (UC Santa Barbara), and Dylann Roof (Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston).

Many serial killers are pathological liars." ~Dr. Jack. Levin, Criminologist, Northeastern University, 2012

Nonviolence is an ideal propped up against the cultural reality of violence.