“I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoStoriesBeautifulHateSidesViolenceChicagoRespecting OthersTwo SidesLove HateBeautiful Love Author:Chance the Rapper
“There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, 'does the job.' I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.” MindDoeBookHandsSeemsWantedJobsBeautifulSexEnjoyViolenceSubjectsMajorityUglyMysteriousPornographyAmusedRepetitiveBland Author:Dave McKean
“Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom.” WorldMadeBeautifulSpiritualLiteratureViolenceRevolutionRevolutionaryNew WorldDomainBattlefieldsSpiritual Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.” PeopleMenWorldGivingMindBelieveBookSoulEarthBeautifulLawSufferingWaterNatureChanceViolenceTreeFlowerRainUniversalMadDefeatCloudsMeaningfulCrueltySensibleSooner Or LaterAbsurdityConvincingLaws Of NatureFoliage Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.” MenWorldWellsLongWholeEyeBeautifulFacesPresidentWhiteGriefViolenceChildhoodTearsHe ManExpressionDiedIntellectWhole WorldSensationsThroatIdolsSweetnessGentlenessSolemnChokeGrandeurAbrahamSomething BeautifulGodlikePlacidTears In My Eyes Author:Elizabeth Keckley
“My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.” BeautifulBornLove IsViolenceTreePaintingEatingViolentLandscapeScreamInsectsFear Of DeathParts Of LifeMosquitoesMaybe LoveBeautiful Landscapes Author:Francis Bacon
“Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.” BeautifulViolenceTreeEatingLandscapeInsectsParts Of LifeBeautiful Landscapes Author:Francis Bacon
“I want people to leave the theater with a greater understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan. "Song of Lahore" moves beyond headlines and stereotypes and shows that a vast majority of Pakistanis are not perpetrators of religious violence - they are victims of it. The beautiful cultural heritage of the region belies its image in the West as monolithically religious, intolerant, and violent.” PeopleWantShowsBeautifulMovingSongUnderstandingReligiousRichGreaterViolenceTheaterVictimMajorityWestViolentRegionsHeritageStereotypePakistanHeadlinesPerpetratorsCultural HeritageLahore Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old Q'orianka Kilcher) may cause cardiac arrest among some viewers.” WorldYearsMayBeautifulCausesParentViolenceActressesIntenseNew WorldViewersCardiacCardiac Arrest Author:Manohla Dargis
“The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.” KindBeautifulYoungAnimalViolenceProtectInstinctImpulse Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.” HumansPhilosophyBeautifulViolenceFiguresGeniusDestructionCriminalsConstructionSublimeMurdererMonstrousMisreading Author:Richard Marshall
“The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what you're dealing with here is "What does it mean to be in love with people who are your equals?" And that's a very beautiful thing that we should cherish, but it's also incredibly tough in some ways.” PeopleWayShouldMeanDoeBeautifulViolenceCrimeToughCherishDeclineMore MoneyBeautiful ThingsVery BeautifulHorrific Author:Stephen Marche