Best violence & moral Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…

“The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.”

People Way Children Littles Long Enough Helping Home Lost Moral Violence Crime Activity Police Busy Traffic Automobile Preventing Old Lady Robbery Clergymen Way Home Inquiring Lost Child

Author:Alan Watts

“The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.”

Moral Violence Tragedy Supreme Destroyed Bombs

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.”

Knows Force Powerful Moral Violence Kings Weak Creeds Passive Testimony Non Violence

Author:Barack Obama

“If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says "I don't like science-fiction movies," or "I don't want to sit through a Western," or "I don't like violence in movies," then I completely tune out.”

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Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.”

“Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.”

Used Force Causes Moral Violence Cost Justification Utopian Elimination

Book:Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Source: Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh

“The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.”

Men Mean Government Purpose Liberty Moral Rights Violence Protect Property Pursuit Property Rights Physical Violence

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.”

Persons Important Moral Violence Overcoming Impulse Good And Bad

Author:Kristin Kreuk

“What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.”

“It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.”

People Left Silence Moral Violence Conscience Extremes Rejects Shed Intimidated Physical Courage

Book:Declaration of conscience

Source: Declaration of conscience

“I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.”

People Thinking War Action Suffering Moral Too Much Violence Empathy Weight Favors Scales Innocent Catalyst Pacifist Moral Action

Author:Paul Bloom

“An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.”

“I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.”

Humans Philosophy Animal Moral Rights Violence Understood Concern Animal Rights Betray Extensions Tactics Resorts Sentient Beings Counterproductive

Author:Andrew Linzey

“In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.”

“If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech.”

Ifs States Speak Moral Violence Speech Track Terrorism Operations Regimes Continuing Nazi Assault Monopoly Unspeakable

Author:Judith Butler

“We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.”

Moral Violence Circumstances Refuse Anticipate

Author:George Friedman

“It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use altogether, as it is likely to be twisted in public discourse to demonise the enemies of the established order, while exempting state violence from legal and moral scrutiny.”

May States Use Order Term Moral Enemy Violence Terrorism Ideology Discourse Twisted Ambiguity Scrutiny Public Discourse

Author:Richard A. Falk

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