“There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.” CountryShowsViolenceLoversEvidenceBuiltDestructiveBrutalObsessiveClinging Author:Bob Herbert
“I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality.” PeopleThinkingChildrenShowsChoicesWatchesIssuesViolenceTelevisionAmountHonestlyBrandsDirtyDestructiveDisagreeCensorshipMentalityGrotesquePersonal Choice Author:Seth Rogen
“I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.” MenBelieveRealityChoicesI BelieveCreativityViolenceIllusionIndependenceFundamentalsAlternativesDestructiveLife And DeathBrotherhoodIntoleranceSubmissionObjectivityDominanceBetween Life And Death Book:On Being Human Source: On Being Human
“Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.” WantEnoughProblemProcessNaturalResultsViolenceSeeingCreationSourceMajorsGreedIncrediblesSeparationDestructiveWildernessAssaultDependencyInsatiableBewildermentEstrangement Author:Michael J Cohen
“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
“For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.” MenKindChildrenBookDifferentHomeSchoolNightPoorViolenceColorShotsDestructionSkinsRelationInstitutionsWinterHungerIndifferenceHeatPoisonBombsDestructiveDecayInactionDifferent Colors Author:Robert Kennedy
“Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.” NeedsGivingHeartSelfEffortEmotionGreaterViolenceAnd LoveViolentDestructiveOpennessRootedSelf DestructiveGiving And ReceivingLove And Freedom Book:Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex
“You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad for people and bad for society, but the whole notion of festival is tied up with intoxication.” PeopleWayWholeViolenceDrugNotionArguingViolentDestructiveTiedFestivalsIntoxicationTied Up Author:Irvine Welsh