Best violence & accepting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.”

Country Accepting Violence Excuse Burning Flags No Excuses Intimidation Embassy Flag Burning

Author:Daniel Fried

“To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.”

Accepting Violence Oneself Rejection Rejects Renounce

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.”

People Men Trying Order Evil Accepting Virtue Violence Teaching Despite Torture Contradiction Allowing Restraining

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

Art Real Ends Facts Force Accepting Audience Violence Resistance Absurd Nerves Facts Of Life Unjustified

Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.”

Real Facts Faces Used Order Pleasure Accepting Violence Horror Directors Ugly Sensual Movie Sensual Pleasure

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.”

Needs Accepting Violence Victim Criminals Former Perpetrators Culpability Family Violence

Author:Leslie Morgan Steiner

“I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.”

“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”

“I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.”

Thinking Kind Certain Accepting Violence Modern Modern Society Numbness

Author:Nick Cave

“Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.”

World Seems Sex Accepting Violence Easier Entering Favour Skulls Axes

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.”

Accepting Violence Students South Missions South Africa

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.”

Looks I Can Faces Accepting Violence Rejects

Author:Wole Soyinka

“The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.”

Humans Values Effort Accepting Five Violence Air Essentials And Love Scripture Sincere Worthwhile Non Violence Human Values Prana Right Conduct

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.”

Men Situation Accepting Violence

Author:Asne Seierstad

“I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.”

Should Reason Accepting Principles Violence Should Have Dogma Shocked

Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.”

Form Accepting Violence Needed Psychological Denial Psychics Maintenance

Author:Bell Hooks

“The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.”

Accepting Principles Focus Violence Groups Military Crime Horror News International Committed Supreme Good News Surveys Invaders Focus Groups Nuremberg Nuremberg Trials

Author:Noam Chomsky

“America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.”

Two Country Seems America Past Existence Accepting Violence Violent Celebrate Canada Willingness Two Countries

Author:Joseph Boyden

“I'm doing an over-the-shoulder shot on a dog. I'm putting the camera behind the dog's shoulder. This is craziness. You just accept it in the movie [Valley of Violence], but when you make the movie, it's the weirdest thing. There's dog coverage, like it's a person.”

Persons Behinds Accepting Violence Dog Shots Cameras Shoulders Valleys Coverage Craziness

Author:Ti West

“Ethan [Hawke] just - they got along great. He got to act with a dog, for real, and it felt like Jumpy was acting with him. It was a surreal thing to watch. When you watch the movie [Valley of Violence], you just kind of accept it. But if you do think about how we show - there's a dog and a movie star interacting - and you buy it. That's crazy.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Real Shows Stars Felt Acting Accepting Watches Violence Crazy Dog Valleys Movie Star Surreal Interacting

Author:Ti West

“The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent activists are politically repressed. This only reinforces the idea that the use of force reigns supreme and that Palestinians have no choice but to accept hardships at the hands of their Israeli lords.”

“Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.”

Trying Firsts Ends States Facts Use Past Three United Accepting United States Violence Thirds Agree Threat Including Israel Agreement Rejects Maps Palestine Hamas Road Maps

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.”

People Long Accepting Forever Violence Bounds Ingredients Palestinian Uprising

Author:Amira Hass

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