violence

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
184504e	"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"	violence	Alice Walker
04e851b	In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.	technology violence	Colson Whitehead
184c463	You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It's finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.	slaughter violence	James Luceno
248b6f2	Ces femmes acceptent de se faire battre avec une simplicite digne des plus grands eloges. Loin de se sentir insultees, elles admirent la force et l'energie d'hommes capables de leur administrer des corrections aussi sonores. En Russie, les hommes ne sont pas seulement autorises a battre leurs femmes, ils ont appris des le catechisme - et on le leur a rappele lors de la confirmation -, qu'il est necessaire de les battre au moins une fois la semaine si l'on est vraiment soucieux de leur sante et de leur bien etre.	misogynie violence	Elizabeth von Arnim
27cb21a	Hate's not functional; why are we taught it?	education hate peace science-fiction violence	Ursula K. Le Guin
0dcfc82	Murder was a fascination as always.	distraction entertainment mortality violence	Erik Larson
1c9fa21	A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets - which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.	ethics violence	Peter Singer
5a48681	Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.	decisions ethics violence	Peter Singer
fdc8727	All Sam Peckinpah ever did in his movies was show that getting hit on the chin doesn't sound like [makes a small popping noise]. When one grown man hits another grown man in the face, it splatters like an overripe tomato. And it's not fun getting killed. It's bloody and gory and altogether unpleasant. That's all Sam Peckinpah ever did.	film movies sam-peckinpah violence	Harry Crews
95d2033	His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.	regret space violence war	James S.A. Corey
cf06fb9	"Con un coltello, un coltellino, in un giorno di festa, tra le due e le tre, si uccisero i due uomini dell'amore. Con un coltello, un coltellino che lo contiene una mano, ma che penetra sottile fra le carni stupite, e si ferma nel punto	death italiano poetry violence	Federico García Lorca
7e895c0	Sometime, the only way you can make someone listen is with your fist. This is not a technique espoused, I know by the diagnostic manuals on most therapists' shelves. Then again nobody ever said I was a therapist.	listen therapist therapy violence	Meg Cabot
1315291	How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.	civil-rights disunity race-issues violence	John Howard Griffin

"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"

Alice Walker

04e851b

In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.

technology violence

Colson Whitehead

184c463

You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It's finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.

slaughter violence

James Luceno

248b6f2

Ces femmes acceptent de se faire battre avec une simplicite digne des plus grands eloges. Loin de se sentir insultees, elles admirent la force et l'energie d'hommes capables de leur administrer des corrections aussi sonores. En Russie, les hommes ne sont pas seulement autorises a battre leurs femmes, ils ont appris des le catechisme - et on le leur a rappele lors de la confirmation -, qu'il est necessaire de les battre au moins une fois la semaine si l'on est vraiment soucieux de leur sante et de leur bien etre.

misogynie violence

Elizabeth von Arnim

27cb21a

Hate's not functional; why are we taught it?

education hate peace science-fiction violence

Ursula K. Le Guin

0dcfc82

Murder was a fascination as always.

distraction entertainment mortality violence

Erik Larson

1c9fa21

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets - which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.

ethics violence

Peter Singer

5a48681

Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.

decisions ethics violence

Peter Singer

fdc8727

All Sam Peckinpah ever did in his movies was show that getting hit on the chin doesn't sound like [makes a small popping noise]. When one grown man hits another grown man in the face, it splatters like an overripe tomato. And it's not fun getting killed. It's bloody and gory and altogether unpleasant. That's all Sam Peckinpah ever did.

film movies sam-peckinpah violence

Harry Crews

95d2033

His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.

regret space violence war

James S.A. Corey

cf06fb9

"Con un coltello, un coltellino, in un giorno di festa, tra le due e le tre, si uccisero i due uomini dell'amore. Con un coltello, un coltellino che lo contiene una mano, ma che penetra sottile fra le carni stupite, e si ferma nel punto

death italiano poetry violence

Federico García Lorca

7e895c0

Sometime, the only way you can make someone listen is with your fist. This is not a technique espoused, I know by the diagnostic manuals on most therapists' shelves. Then again nobody ever said I was a therapist.

listen therapist therapy violence

Meg Cabot

1315291

How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.

civil-rights disunity race-issues violence

John Howard Griffin