“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.” WorldHas BeensWholeWisdomPoliticsCan DoJusticeEconomyViolenceCenturyLimitsConvictionWhole WorldTriumphLiberalismJustificationEmbarrassedCrudeBrazenInfertilityUnconcernedLawfulness Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.” PeopleThinkingWorryViolenceLimitsViolentBored Author:Eli Roth
“It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is one incentive among many, and has its place. But to put no limits on the impulse to accumulate money obsessively is as destructive as to place no limits on the impulse to commit violence. A viable democratic society needs a ceiling and a floor with regard to the distribution of wealth and assets.” NeedsTryingWealthMistakeViolenceLimitsRegardDemocraticCommitImpulseDestructiveAssetsSocialistDistributionIncentivesCeilingsDemocratic SocietyDistribution Of Wealth Author:Philip Slater
“We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.” GivingHumansEarthSpiritOrderPassionSocialCommonViolenceEvolutionAmountLimitsGiving UpCrossroadsSocial OrderHuman Evolution Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible, and there were still laws on the books that made it alright for men to beat their wives, as long as it was within certain limits, and women were chattel.” MenLongMadeStillsBookLawUsedCertainWifeViolenceLimitsBeatsUsed To BeMade ItVisibleAlright Author:Gloria Steinem
“Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.” BelieveSeemsAmericaSexReligiousWonderViolenceCrimeExpressionProtectLimitsCourtPornographyDepiction Author:John Cornyn
“What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.” MenHandsPayViolenceCenturyPolicyLimitsEqualUniversalPropertyAccessFirmAbortionVotingHealthcareMasculineOpposingContraceptionEqual Pay Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.” PeopleIfsMenDoeSometimesEyeLyingViolenceHonorLimitsViolentStealingHis EyesLiarsThievesCheatBe A ManCheater Book:The Tomb Source: The Tomb
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.” DoeLanguageBlackViolenceLimits Author:Toni Morrison
“War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.” WarPeaceViolenceLimitsActs Of Violence Author:Carl von Clausewitz