#violence

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. ↗

— Colin Baker

#arm #diffuse #down #effects #fear

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#before #commitments #core #culture #essential

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. ↗

— Friedrich Ebert

#democracy #freedom #matter #reactionary #using

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#broke #consideration #elemental #leading #means

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#happen #love #name #opera #other

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes. ↗

— Dr. Dre

#any #as far as #far #goes #mission

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#became #i #kind #monk #nine

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#culture #embracing #i #know #puritanical

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#comes #easily #eating #engage #extreme

I don't like violence. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#like #violence