Quotes About Violence

But subtler accommodations instigated by breakaway denominations, reform movements, ecumenical councils, and other liberalizing forces have allowed other religions to be swept along by the humanistic tide. It is when fundamentalist forces stand athwart those currents and impose tribal, authoritarian, and puritanical constraints that religion becomes a force for violence.

The impression that the Muslim world indulges kinds of violence that the West has outgrown is not a symptom of Islamophobia or Orientalism but is borne out by the numbers.

Mass incarceration, even if it does lower violence, introduces problems of its own. Once the most violent individuals have been locked up, imprisoning more of them rapidly reaches a point of diminishing returns, because each additional prisoner become less and less dangerous, and pulling them off the streets makes a smaller and smaller dent in the violence rate.

Also, since people tend to get less violent as they get older, keeping men in prison beyond a certain point does little to reduce crime.

Half of the world's homicides are committed in just twenty-three countries containing about a tenth of humanity, and

inequality is generally a better predictor of violence than unemployment.

Also, as Nils Petter Gleditsch and Halvard Buhaug have pointed out, even though an increasing proportion of the world's armed conflicts have involved Islamic countries and insurgencies over the past two decades (from 20 to 38 percent), it's not because those conflicts have increased in number.

The moral sense sanctifies a set of norms and taboos that govern the interactions among people in a culture, sometimes in ways that decrease violence, though often (when the norms are tribal, authoritarian, or puritanical) in ways that increase it.

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.