Quotes About Violence

President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Alice Miller conveyed to her readers new hope to overcome the deadly cycle of war, attachment disturbance and domestic violence. In public she was the protagonist in the fight for self-realization and the protection of children; at home she was rather the protagonist of personel tragedy, repeating the cycle of attachment disorder and violence with her eyes open. The True "Drama of the Gifted Child

Depuis le début de cette lettre, j'ai réfléchi à la violence. A la tienne, à la violence en général. Tu as réagi radicalement, entièrement, comme l'expression honnête de ce que tu es : un être capable de résister. Je te comprends mieux, d'autant plus que j'identifie cette violence en moi, par exemple, dans ma décision de m'isoler . Je ne frappe pas les gens, je les fais disparaitre

E poi ascoltare qualcuno che esprime opinioni eterodosse, al contempo violente e empatiche (la geniale equazione di cui solo pochi conoscono la formula), è un piacere troppo raro.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

Well, let them see that gunfights are squalid, messy things, he thought; they should know that human bodies like Nancy's are thin and vulnerable bags of skin that pour out blood when pierced.

It is one of the central human tragedies that war is not an aberration-it is what human beings do.

Michael Flynn was so angry he was almost spitting his words down the phone. Over six feet tall and with a heavy build he was a big man and, as everyone in the room knew, he was more than capable of great violence. He was paying them for their expertise, which they currently seemed to be lacking in. In fact, they were irritating the arse off him with their stupidity.

There were other ways of battering women too, ways that did not involve physical violence, and Kate sometimes thought that the mental battering was worse.

there was just a game. They had killed someone and they thought it was funny. How had she allowed that to happen? How had

When I did Dangerous Lady, they told me it was too violent and I said – she's hardly going to hit them with her handbag!

The only difference between street fighting and boxing is that there is a ref there stopping me from killing you.

Tenemos que librarnos de la idea de que somos una especie agresiva por naturaleza que no sabe evitar la guerra.

They create desolation and call it peace There

Roman emperors and their advisors never solved the problem of succession. They were defeated in part by biology, in part by lingering uncertainties and disagreements about how inheritance should best operate. Succession always came down to some combination of luck, improvisation, plotting, violence and secret deals. The moment when Roman power was handed on was always the moment when it was most vulnerable.

a reminder that the body beautiful was not so very far from the body brutalised.

they create desolation and call it peace'

in most circumstances, ancient weapons were much better at wounding than killing outright; death followed later, by infection).

Cicero had the men summarily executed, with not even a show trial. Triumphantly, he announced their deaths to the cheering crowd in a famous one-word euphemism: vixere, 'they have lived' – that is, 'they're dead'.

But Rome expanded into a world not of communities living at peace with one another but of endemic violence