Violence Quotes - Page 4

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.

Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in the suburbs? The world was violent, rotten, corrupt, seething with hatred and perversion, and there was no escaping it. Everything you worked for, everything you loved, had to be locked up as if you were in a castle under siege.

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

A day came when I should have died,
and after than nothing seemed very important,
so I stayed as I am, without regret
separated from the normal human condition.

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.