Quotes About Violence

What is gentlest in love is love's violence. Losing yourself in love, you reach love's goal. Love makes you suffer, as love makes you whole. Love steals your everything and makes you rich. Love is both meaningless and poetry. Captured by love, by love you are set free.

But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never knoew what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spared the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing

We would not now have a sizable part of our own population prepared to engage in homicidal violence if they truly believed that that young man in the hoodie was an image of God.

Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testifies to a structural and endemic conflict in society that was political and social as well as personal, producing many, many instances of similar violence.

The gunman said, Fabrizzio,Michael Corleone sends you his regards.

That night a bomb exploded in the Corleone Family mall in Long Beach, thrown from a car that pulled up to the chain, then roared away. That night also two button men of the Corleone Family were killed as they peaceably ate their dinner in a small Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. The Five Families War of 1946 had begun.

Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.

In short, the gabbellotto was a mafioso who for a certain sum of money protected the real estate of the rich from all claims made on it by the poor, legal or illegal. When any poor peasant tried to implement the law which permitted him to buy uncultivated land, the gabbellotto frightened him off with threats of bodily harm or death. It was that simple.

What manner of men are we then, if we do not have our reason," he said. "We are all no better than beasts in a jungle if that were the case. But we have reason, we can reason with each other and we can reason with ourselves. To what purpose would I start all these troubles again, the violence and the turmoil?

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

Allá, en el Congo, conviviendo con la injusticia y la violencia, había descubierto la gran mentira que era el colonialismo y había empezado a sentirse un 'irlandés', es decir, ciudadano de un país ocupado y explotado por un Imperio que había desngrado y desalmado a Irlanda

Fue entonces cuando tuvo la idea de los espacios salvadores, la idea de que la civilización no era, no había sido nunca un movimiento, un estado de cosas general, un ambiente que abrazara al conjunto de la sociedad, sino diminutas ciudadelas levantadas a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio que resistían el asalto permanente de esa fuerza instintiva, violenta, obtusa, fea, destructora y bestial que dominaba el mundo y que ahora se había metido en su propio hogar.

El gran adversario de la civilización es, según Hayek, el constructivismo o la ingeniería social, la pretensión de elaborar intelectualmente un modelo económico y político y querer luego implantarlo en la realidad, algo que sólo es posible mediante la fuerza —una violencia que degenera en dictadura— y que ha fracasado en todos los casos en que se intentó.

democratic and liberal society, despite having created the highest living standards in history and reduced social violence, exploitation and discrimination more than at any other time, does not receive the enthusiastic support of its beneficiaries, but is greeted with boredom and scorn, if not systematic hostility. For

Aquellas obras exentas de alguna dosis de violencia me resultaban irreales (he preferido siempre que las novelas finjan lo real así como otros prefieren que finjan lo irreal) y la irrealidad suele aburrirme mortalmente.

Si algo he aprendido en el Congo, es que no hay peor fiera sanguinaria que el ser humano

El «espíritu tribal», fuente del nacionalismo, ha sido el causante, con el fanatismo religioso, de las mayores matanzas en la historia de la humanidad.

cover the twenty-five in sacks soaked in gasoline. Then they set fire to them. Shrieking, transformed into human torches, some managed to put out the flames by rolling on the ground but were left with terrible burns. Those who threw themselves into the river like flaming meteors drowned. Macedo, Loaysa, and Velarde finished off the wounded with their revolvers.

En The Open Society and its Enemies, de donde proceden estas citas, Popper es meridianamente claro: «economic power may be nearly as dangerous as physical violence» («el poder económico puede ser casi tan peligroso como la violencia física»)[44].

managers did that as a warning but also for amusement. They enjoyed it. Making people suffer, competing in cruelties, was a vice they had contracted from engaging so frequently in flagellations, beatings, and tortures. Often, when they were drunk, they looked for pretexts for their blood games.

la idea de que la civilización no era, no había sido nunca un movimiento, un estado de cosas general, un ambiente que abrazara al conjunto de la sociedad, sino diminutas ciudadelas levantadas a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio que resistían el asalto permanente de esa fuerza instintiva, violenta, obtusa, fea, destructora y bestial que dominaba el mundo

Hicieron, entonces, lo único que podían hacer, con heroísmo, sí, pero sin violentar los mil y un tabúes y preceptos que regulaban su existencia: dejarse matar.

War always takes you by surprise.

L'Occident a vendu des armes aux deux camps et nous, nous avons été assez bêtes pour rentrer dans ce jeu cynique...huit ans de guerre pour rien! Alors maintenant l'état donne des noms de martyrs aux rues pour flatter les familles des victimes. Ills trouvent peut-être ainsi un sens à toute cette absurdité.