“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.” WantHelpingFormCommonViolenceModernActivityDemandProjectsCapacityConcernRootsPressureOneselfSurrenderCommitContemporaryMultitudesModern LifeFrenzyCarried AwayFruitfulness Author:Thomas Merton
“Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.” NationsBitsViolenceModernSlaveryUnionsFruitChinaGenocideSovietCapitalistExploitationSoviet UnionMaoAbhorrent Author:Terry Eagleton
“Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.” WorldKindIndividualWishGoalVoiceResultsVisionViolenceModernDeterminationWestIslamViolentModern LifeEloquentMilitantJihadPhobiaHegemonyIslamistsBurqa Author:Daniel Pipes
“I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.” IfsWayGivingPresidentAbilityWonderWatchesViolenceModernDespairPopePitsCasualSlaughterhousesButchery Book:Carrion Comfort Source: Carrion Comfort
“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.” HumansPersonsHumanityNamesNationsSocialCommunityCommonTalkingViolenceModernCrimeTearsOughtConcernSlaveryInjusticeOrganizedFuelFabricOutragePublic HealthHuman TraffickingTraffickingOrganized CrimeCommon HumanityModern Slavery Author:Barack Obama
“It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.” HappensNightSexCareersPlayerViolenceModernMinutesFootballDrinkDrugRoundsAverageClubsComplainingDisasterDrunkSoccerCombinationAnalysisExcessRecipesIncidentsInvolvingFootballerDisposableColumnistsExpectancyFootball ClubsNight ClubSex Drugs Author:Matthew Engel
“I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.” ThinkingKindCertainAcceptingViolenceModernModern SocietyNumbness Author:Nick Cave
“You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.” WritingMindDoePastForceViolenceModernEmpathyCapacityHatredFundamentalsDrivingModern SocietyDriving Force Author:Geraldine Brooks
“If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.” IfsEndsSometimesReasonViolenceModernPureSchemesFundamentalist Author:Francis George
“Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.” WellsMeanHomeSufferingLosesPowerfulTechnologyRichViolenceModernUnderstoodSoilSeptemberMonopolySeptember 11AtrocitiesModern Technology Author:Noam Chomsky