An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad for people and bad for society, but the whole notion of festival is tied up with intoxication.
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.
Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.
I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.
If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!
Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.
It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.