V Quotes
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“Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.”
Source: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939
“Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.”
“Violence, factory politics - these things simply form some bedrock of what interests me, but I'm a child of the twentieth century. And I don't see reality and its violence, wars, oppression, etc., and fiction as counterposed.”
“Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.”
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.”
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.”
“Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.”
“Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.”
“Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.”
“Violent criminals
"They are emotionally out of control; they are convinced that they are so justified that it isn't even a crime; and/or that they won't get caught, so punishment won't apply. Put more simply, the are so angry, delusional, arrogant, or lacking in moral conscience that they don't care about the punishment".
from Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safe”
Source: Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
“Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.”
“Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.”
“Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.”
“Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.”
“Violent love eats up what it does love, and is mere appetite.”
Source: As meat loves salt
“Violent means will give violent freedom.”
“Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”
“Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.”
“Violent men, and men in authority over violent men, and the broader public that authorises those men, are not yet shamed by the harm of coercive control over women ... Maybe we can rest some hope on the growing activity of men of goodwill calling on each other to change. When that group hits a critical mass, the majority of men will be more likely to want to change.”
“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”
“Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.”
“Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.”
Source: Collected Works
“Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.”
“Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.”
“Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.”
Source: Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic
“Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.”
Source: Love of Country: Discovering confidence in humanity, law and politics
“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.”
Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism
“Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.”
“Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.”
Source: Fighting for Hope
“Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.”
“violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.”
“Violent thought affects your inner peace and Happiness more than you can ever imagine. When you are on the street and you use an expletive to yell at an errant road user, that is violent thought. This tendency to think ill of someone, even if you have been provoked or wronged, has to cease. This is the ahimsa that Gandhi talked about. It wasn’t just about violent action being given up, it was also about violent thought ceasing. When you train your mind to be non-violent in thought, and of course action, that is when you will discover that you are the Happiness that you seek!”
“Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case, not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.”
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
Source: God is Not Great
“Violently tear off all a woman's clothes,
but not with all delicacy reveal her soul,
because she will be scared and,
feeling really naked, she will run away.”
“violet doesn't believe in ghosts...but they believe in her.”
Source: Haunting Violet
“Violet Eden!" Steph said sternly, sucking me out of my trance. "We have your dad's Amex, a green light and no specified limit." Her mock rebuke morphed into a devious grin. "What more could a girl want as a birthday present?”
Source: Embrace
“Violet had a foolish, doll-like face and primrose colored hair in lifeless curls pinned all over her head like synthetic sausages. She opened her tiny wet mouth like a sea anemone and spoke.”
“Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.”
“Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older girl and holding a handkerchief to Rose's lips. "What happened?" she asked Galen, her tone just shy of being accusatory. "I am so sorry, Your Highness," Galen said, backing away. "I made her laugh, and–" "You made her laugh?" Violet's eyes widened. "She hasn't laughed in weeks!" She smiled at Galen and gave Rose's shoulders a little squeeze.”
“Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.”
“Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.”
Source: Jazz
“Violet looked up at the perfectly full moon. Just a big dead rock floating there doing nothing. But it never ceased to be beautiful somehow. Maybe that’s what makes it beautiful, she considered. It’s not trying to be something it’s not. Earth, on the other hand, was straining pretty hard, always scrambling to remake itself in the image of some sci-fi dystopia from the golden age of ersatz coffee and mutton chop sideburns. When will it be enough?”
Source: Dreck
“Violet Lynn Parker, you’d better spill or I’ll start bellowing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.”
Source: Optical Delusions in Deadwood
“Violet might wear her sparkling recklessness well, but beneath it she was careful, careful, careful. Maud was not; but she would learn to be. She would choose to be, as she chose every day to be generous and kind and all the other things that defied the coiled snake of her inherited nature.”
Source: A Restless Truth
“Violet moves, a readjustment, and I expect her to pull away. But instead, she leans further into me, her head on my shoulder, and her sweet scent becomes a warm blanket.
No other place I'd rather be in the world right now. No place at all.”
Source: Long Way Home
“Violet nightshade
Meaning: Fascination, witchcraft
Solanum brownii | New South Wales
A member of the nightshade family, often toxic. Commonly associated with death and ghosts in folklore. Latin name comes from 'solamen' meaning to quieten or comfort, and refers to the narcotic properties of some species. Used as food plants by the larvae of some butterflies and moths.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made.”