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Quotes About Violence

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Like everything else - Meg spoke to the few remaining cauliflower heads - it's falling apart. It's not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn't be safe in school.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Matt, I saw a man with his face blown off and no mouth to scream with, and yet he screamed and could not die. I saw two brothers, and one was in blue and one was in grey, and I will not tell you which one took his saber and ran it through the other. Oh God, it was brother against brother, Cain and Abel all over again. And I was turned into Cain. What would God have to do with a nation where brothers can turn against each other with such brutality?
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Meg spoke to the few remaining cauliflower heads—"it's falling apart. It's not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn't be safe in school.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It's not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn't be safe in school.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Visioned stars exploding into life. Planets being birthed. Yalith had spoken of the violence of Mahlah's baby's birth. The birth of planets was no gentler. Violent swirlings of winds and waters. Land masses as fluid as water. Volcanoes spouting flame so high that it seemed to meet the outward flaming of the sun.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Stevie. He went up to the hotel and beat the living daylights out of Louis. He's lost three teeth and he has a broken jaw.
~ Maeve Binchy
All war is absurd. For thousands of years, human beings have chosen to settle their differences by obliterating one another. And when we are not obliterating one another, we spend an enormous amount of time and attention coming up with better ways to obliterate one another the next time around. It's all a little strange, if you think about it.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The statistics show that the Southerner who can avoid arguments and adultery is as safe as any other American, and probably safer." In the backcountry, violence wasn't for economic gain. It was personal. You fought over your honor.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
They were "Scotch-Irish"—that is, from the lowlands of Scotland, the northern counties of England, and Ulster in Northern Ireland. The borderlands—as this region was known—were remote and lawless territories that had been fought over for hundreds of years. The people of the region were steeped in violence.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
For thousands of years, human beings have chosen to settle their differences by obliterating one another. And when we are not obliterating one another, we spend an enormous amount of time and attention coming up with better ways to obliterate one another the next time around. It's all a little strange, if you think about it.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Iss?z bölgelerde ÅŸiddet ekonomik kazan?mla ilgili deÄŸil. KiÅŸisel. Onurunuz için sava??yorsunuz.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
~ Malcolm X
There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
~ Malcolm X
We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint!
~ Tony Dovale
Material poverty doesn't causemurder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does.
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process
~ Johan Galtung
Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.
~ John Chivington
They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.
~ George W. Bush
The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.
~ Malala Yousafzai
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...
~ Malala Yousafzai
Of course you can't understand. All you can do is destroy a village without knowing anything about its people or its history, without wanting to know. Just like that. Like a mad bull. Of course you don't understand. What do you understand? Fucking and killing, that's what you understand. And soccer. And shares in the bus cooperative. You're a wild animal, not a human being. A wild, stupid, animal.
~ Amos Oz
Women who are attacked phone a hotline for advice. Don't report a rape, the women are told. Call it indecent exposure. A guy who takes it out and doesn't do anything with it--cops figure that guys is sick.
~ Amy Hempel