Best violence & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.”

People Men Looks Stills Eye Powerful Behinds Violence Lucky Accounts His Eyes Smooth Elegant Very Powerful Powerful Man Older Man

Author:Vincent Piazza

“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

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Author:Tertullian

“It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.”

Enough Might Eye Force Easy Violence Share Tools Rounds Allies Devoted

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”

Light Eye Together Night Break Darkness Path Violence Stones Chaos Staring Thrown Locks Centre Impatient Break Out Mould

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.”

Light Eye Break Path Violence Opposites Casts Refuse Shut Up Centre Impatient Obscurity

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.”

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Author:Roberto Bolano

“Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.”

Hands Eye Violence Labor Threat Staring Historic Implicit

Book:Theodore Rex

Source: Theodore Rex

“If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.”

Ifs World Want Eye Hate Break Violence Circles Endless Vicious Eye For An Eye Reprisal Vicious Circles

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“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.”

“It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.”

Men Love Persons Eye Passion Grief Violence Easier Thousand Succeed Ten Affection Pursuit Resentment Mistress Courtship

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.”

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Author:V. S. Pritchett

“There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.”

People Life Long Helping Stories Eye Lost Term Issues Violence Gun Long Term Gun Violence Personal Issues

Author:Chris Murphy

“Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.”

Eye Violence Naked Wheels Nonviolence Spinning Naked Eyes

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.”

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Author:C. Sommerville

“The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.”

May Mean Hands Eye Lasts Loss Kindness Taken Violence Luck Ill Deeds Hug Good Deeds Avarice Transitory

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

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