Violent Quotes - page 28

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children. (Samuel Johnson)
Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man? View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Let us take social struggle at its most violent: war. What interests Hegel is not struggle as such, but the way the "truth"of the engaged positions emerges through it, namely how the warring parties are "reconciled"through their mutual destruction. The true (spiritual) meaning of war is not honor, victory, defense, etc., but the emergence of absolute negativity (death_ as the absolute Master which reminds us of the false stability of our organized finite lives. War serves to elevate individuals to their "truth" by making them renounce their particular self interested identify with the State's universality. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
...crazy, tasteless even, as it may sound, the problem with Hitler was that he was not violent enough, that his violence was not 'essential' enough... View quote
Slavoj Žižek
One should oppose the fascination with Hitler according to which Hitler was, of course, a bad guy, responsible for the death of millions - but he definitely had balls, he pursued with iron will what he wanted. ... This point is not only ethically repulsive, but simply wrong: no, Hitler did not ‘have the balls' to really change things; he did not really act, all his actions were fundamentally reactions, i. e., he acted so that nothing would really change, he stages a big spectacle of Revolution so that the capitalist order could survive.” In this precise sense of violence, Gandhi was more violent than Hitler: Gandhi's movement effectively endeavored to interrupt the basic functioning of the British colonial state. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. View quote
Marilyn Manson
Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth. View quote
Nick Nolte
All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
The kabalists say that a man is not dead when his body is entombed. Death is never sudden; for, according to Hermes, nothing goes in nature by violent transitions. Everything is gradual, and as it required a long and gradual development to produce the living human being, so time is required to completely withdraw vitality from the carcass. "Death can no more be an absolute end, than birth a real beginning. Birth proves the preexistence of the being, as death proves immortality," says the same French kabalist. (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky)
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Countering the extremist ideology by standing up and promoting our shared British values. Taking on extremism in all its forms – both violent and non-violent. View quote
David Cameron
I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character. View quote
Noel Gallagher
I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches. View quote
Noel Gallagher
Violent disorders call for violent remedies. Yet I am, I must remember, Old King Log. I shall float inertly in the stagnant pool. Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out. View quote
Robert Graves
First of all, I can see that you love your daughter and you are a nice person who has a great future ahead of you and I hope your future is here.... This is not the focus.... And so, what we have to do is find a way to make sure that you can get right with the law and we've got to do this in a good way, so that the rug doesn't get pulled out from under you and your family gets separated...but if you're worried about, you know, some deportation force coming, knocking on your door this year, don't worry about that.... Secure the border and the people who are violent criminals, repeat offenders who keep coming back in, we've got to focus on that. View quote
Paul Ryan
The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. View quote
Gerard Way
When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' View quote
Gerard Way
I don't believe that a violent revolution is ever going to work, simply on the grounds that it never has in the past. (Alan Moore)
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure. View quote
George W. Bush
By all measures men are the more violent gender. View quote
Steven Pinker
Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own. View quote
Steven Pinker
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement. View quote
Steven Pinker