#violence

I tried not to think of all the horror movies featuring this exact scenario, soon to be followed by an abundance of gratuitous blood and gore. ↗

— M.A. George

#horror-movies #paranormal-romance #movies

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks. ↗

— James Jones

#movies #violence #movies

Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a primitive, irrational urge, nor is it a "pathology" except in the metaphorical sense of a condition that everyone would like to eliminate. Instead, it is a near-inevitable outcome of the dynamics of self-interested, rational social organisms. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#nature

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43) ↗

— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#quran #violence #war #religion

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols! ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#politics #religion #society #superstition #violence

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so). ↗

— Roland Barthes

#violence #photography

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#despereaux #light #violence #cruelty

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. ↗

— Tori Amos

#crawl #each #knees #make #other

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. ↗

— Abdallah II

#dispossessed #division #earth #extremists #global

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#agreements #between #condemning #especially #forms