Browse 79 quotes about Violence In Society.
“You see, deep in their hearts they’re convinced that a colonization that doesn't end in a seditious movement and massacres is not a successful colonization. Perhaps they’re right, in a way.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“One of the best ways to fight poverty and end violence is through education.”
“Guns make small men feel big.”
“But what when there [is] not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and it’s tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“There’s no respect for older people at all today, and that’s saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there’s no calling people ‘Mr’ or ‘Mrs’ now, they just call you, and it’s all ‘fuck off’ and the likes of.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Originally, we are all inclined to injustice and violence, because our needs, desires, anger, and hatred immediately enter consciousness and thus have the jus primi occupantis”
Source: The Basis of Morality
“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person first leaves when they are witness to the violence of man.”
Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl
“I had known that I would not find Morel alone. I knew that Africa still had plenty of those adventurers always ready to jump at a chance to break the law — to rob, pillage, and in general live a life of freedom.’ Our continent has not yet lost all its attraction for men who feel free only with a gun in their hand.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“I’m coming round to the belief that colonialism hasn’t been a harsh enough school for them, that it hasn’t taught them enough about things — that French colonialism has, in spite of everything, treated nature with a certain respect. They’ve still got a lot to learn, and French people don’t give that kind of lesson. The men of their own race will take care of that. One day they’ll have their Stalins, their Hitlers, and their Napoleons, their Fuhrers and their Duces, and then their very blood will cry out to demand respect for nature. That day they will understand.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“John thought about nearly dying in Chicago and
this first time firing a gun, causing a realization to come to him; video games are not accurate depictions of real-world violence.
Were there a few fractured souls who lost their minds to the game and couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what was fake? Sure. But a sane mind could tell, and a sane mind shouldn't be able to kill in cold blood after five hours of Halo.
Those people had an underlying problem before they picked up a controller.”
Source: A F K
“If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate.”
“So what causes men to become violent? I’ll tell you, boredom, silly rules, muggy screws and pathetic governors. What else can we do - swallow it, wipe our mouths out. You have to fight for your rights. Not sit back and take it.”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Violence leads to madness, it fills you with crazy thoughts. You sleep it, eat it and shit it. You become a time bomb. They push you a bit more – you blow up. They beat you and you survive. You get strong and you blow again. So how long can a man live this way? I’ll tell you…until he dies, if need be. It becomes a way of life, but I don’t remember it, why? Simple…it’s painful; it’s empty and alone. Your cell becomes a hole in the earth, it sucks you in. You drown in your own bitterness, it’s not right to live this way.”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Prison madness is much the same! Insanity is plentiful in prisons. These days with the drug culture it’s not a lot of difference, as a lot of convicts make themselves psychotic and paranoid. Many end up killers, all over petty and minor problems. Where men would once squabble, fight and kill over a ½ oz of bacca they now do the same over a gram of white powder or a bag of brown!”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Urges like the loony who enjoys strangling, it’s his buzz. He gets depressed when in seclusion, as he can’t strangle anybody so in the end he hangs himself in turmoil. Their brain can’t handle it. He wants so bad to kill, but they will not let him, so he has to kill himself.”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.”
“Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect? Or, like Tumass Song Angot, did they consider war to be a purely masculine displacement-activity, a vast Rape, and therefore in their experiment eliminate the masculinity that rapes and the femineity that is Raped? God knows.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“What with the lake and the railroads, and what with blizzards and floods and barn fires and forest fires and the general availability of shotguns and bear traps and homemade liquor and dynamite, what with the prevalence of lonliness and religion and the rages and ecstasies they induce, and the closeness of families, violence was inevitable.”
Source: Housekeeping ~ by MARILYNNE ROBINSON ~ First Edition ~ 1st Printing 1980
“Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world”
Source: The Nickel Boys
“The fact is, all gangsters live in dog years. We come up fast in terms of making a name for ourselves, but, once our names have been established on the streets, we are on our way out.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.”
“VIOLENCE IS NEVER A JUSTICE”
“Non-violence is the insurance against violence.”
“Call Malcolm Price (Pricey) a ‘chancer’ and you would be wrong. Pricey has, with premeditated determination, won his battles and hung his gloves up; his story is no less dramatic or tantalising than that of his Welsh ancestors.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Barbarianism and finesse cannot be rolled into one, Pricey defeats this theory. The barbarianism born from his fight to make it in life, his finesse brought about by his sensitivity that was deprived of him when he was a child.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Gradually, the physical cruelty and punishment beatings started and it got worse. He’d be on his knees to try to teach me how to fight, so my father made out. Whack! His hand would slap in to my face with the full force might of a 6ft 4in 18st man!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“I remember, I walked in to the house expecting to be consoled by my father, but he yelled, ‘What, you fucking lost!’ At this stage I was still only a kid, if I lost then I was given a good kicking by him. He would suddenly turn in to King Kong and proceeded to paint the walls seven colours of shite with me!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“If I lost a bout then I soon learned not to go home straight afterwards, I would give him time to go to the bar first. Event though I’d go to all of that trouble to escape his ranting and raving, my father would come home steaming drunk, drag me out of bed whilst I was still half asleep and beat the living shit out of me!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“My aspirations never lay with boxing, but that’s the way I was pushed. I was still a choirboy when I started boxing because I remember I went to choir practice every Wednesday night. I missed some Wednesday nights if I was boxing and then when I missed it I’d have to tell the choirmaster why. I had a battle between the choir and boxing. When my voice inevitably broke, boxing won.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“I wanted to go in one direction, but my father forced me to follow his direction, and, somehow, he won. In one of these compelling situations, he wanted me to join the police force, but he had previously said that I didn’t have the bastard brains to pass my driving test. What a contradiction of terms?”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that’s what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“I must have had that Bugsy Malone type of face that attracts every fucker to have a go at me.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it’s these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“My time as a doorman was quite volatile and bloody, no door registration schemes or training courses could have prepared you for what it was like back then. You didn’t have vanloads of police patrolling up and down the town then, you were lucky if you even seen a couple of bobbies in a car, never mind on foot.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“The only kicks and highs people got then were the ones dished out in nightclub fights.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Some people say you should watch a man’s feet to see if he’s ready to swing a punch, I say watch his fucking eyes!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Someone once asked me if I knew the feeling of fear. Oh, I knew fear. Well, really speaking I never feared any fucker at that time; I’ve got to be honest. But I knew fear, the fear of losing! There was never any fear of combat! My father instilled that fear in to me and that was what drove me on to win … the fear of what was to come after you went home saying you’d lost!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“In a dancehall in Kendal, I chased the bouncers out of the fucking dancehall, they were wearing white coats and they took these coats off, put them on the floor and jacked; Ginger Harris and me, we put the white coats on and took over for the night!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“People keep telling me that I’m a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here’s my understanding on that, what’s a legend? I don’t really know what a legend is, I don’t even know the word. I’m not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I’m not King Arthur.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“You know, the Lord said to Adam: ‘Come forth, come forth,’ and he came fifth and won the fucking apple, do you know what I mean. If you can walk away, walk away but it’s hard to do”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“I’ve had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it’s not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“I believe in most men there is a certain amount of violence. Every man has a bit of fight in him, but some of them have to look deeper within themselves, further than most. The fight is there if you search for it; people don’t think they’ve got it at all, but they have got it, like the weakest fucking crony you could see on earth. If someone broke in to the house, I believe he’d fucking have a go rather than somebody hurt his wife and kids; it would press him to his limits. If he’s not going to defend his pitch, he’s not worth a cup of cold fucking water.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire; is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Dicing with death is one man’s cup of tea, but another man’s poison. I just didn’t fear anything.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Today, these doormen, they wear body armour, armoured gloves, stab proof vests and all sorts; it’s totally changed, you get shot at the door you are paid to stand at, never mind getting stabbed. Druggies go away, get a gun, return and start shooting at you! Yeah, times are changing fast and there are some nice kids out there and some of them are fucking wild. I can’t see it getting better with these drug mugs because they get on them and they can’t get off them again.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“On this world you have the animals and they have as much right to be on this world as us; and it’s man who is the reason they are pushed to extinction. They’re killing them for their tusks and their horns, and these fucking idiots, they think claws will give them sex appeal and they get all fucking sissy on you.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.”
“This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen’s eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the ‘criminally insane’ label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle’s legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both.”
Source: Psycho Steve