Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problems: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.’
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Quotes tagged ‘Violence’
Whatever you do, no matter fucking what, you do not mess with the new world order. This new world order is this, and it's very simple, so even if you're fucking stupid, which you may very well be, you can understand it. Ready? Here goes... Pay attention. Give me your shit or I will kill you.
We're the big swinging dick of this world--have been for a long fucking time. But it seems people are forgetting that. So now our big swinging dick is going to swing harder and faster until we take off like a motherfucking helicopter and blow all these motherfuckers away.
Oh, how embarrassing! There they are! They were inside you the whole time. You did have guts. I've never been so wrong before in my life!
My father didn't bother with comforting lies, he used his fist. He was a loveless, violent drunk, and no good to anybody. He drove me from home when I was fifteen. Didn't lay eyes on this place again for many years. I was not at his death bed, Rick, I would not grant him that. And to this day, do no…
Unless the powerful are capable of learning to respect the dignity of their victims, impassable barriers will remain, and the world will be doomed to violence, cruelty, and bitter suffering.
I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed. As children, these men were shot, axed, scalded, beaten, strangled, tortured, drugged, starved, suffocated, set on fire, thrown out of the window, raped, o…
If toxic masculinity was just about men posturing around each other in a comical fashion, that would be one thing, but this persistent pressure to constantly be proving manhood and warding off anything considered feminine or emasculating is the main reason why we have so many damn shootings in the U…
— Amanda Marcotte transcribed by James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
This is where the argument risks losing traction, in that it has made men across the Internet defensive. ‘Not all men’ has been a boorish rejoinder to critiques of masculinity, but an informative one. No one wants to be implicated in this violence— not all gun owners, not all bipolar patients, not a…
When men seek that control — when we feel it’s our due — and don’t achieve it, we can resent and hate. Toxic masculinity sets expectations that prime us for disappointment. We turn that disappointment on ourselves and others as anger and hatred.
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.
In the face of hate and violence, we will love one another. We will not give in to fear.
They were the interchangeable faces of violence and politics.
I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world... True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion... We as Muslims have to stand up to those who…
My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mo…
Violence is the effect, not the cause of the concentrated poverty that locks that many poor people up together with no conceivable way out and no productive way to channel their rage at having an existence that is adjacent to the American dream.
These disgraceful attacks are straight out of the Donald Trump playbook, and Bernie Sanders is the only person who can put a stop to them. Sanders needs to both forcefully denounce and apologize for his supporters' unacceptable behavior — not walk away.
Men do not live in cultures where the degradation and brutalisation of men at the hands of women is the stuff of pornography, entertainment and advertising. Men do not live with the consciousness that they are being hunted by women who would take sexual delight in dismembering them simply on account…
A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect.
In a world of so much violence and killing, I just don’t believe that government itself should be part of the killing