“A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.” IfsHeartTurnsWaitingWaterSilenceFireViolenceCreationTerribleRingsForestsBurningInstantLakesPoolFearfulFlashUnafraidBurning Heart Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.” RealLife IsViolenceTerribleReal LifeColourBeing CoolViolence In Movies Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.” ThinkingWarViolenceTerribleTragedySlaveryTiesCivil WarFlagsLinkedCrowJim CrowConfederateConfederate FlagTerrible Tragedy Author:William R. Ferris
“When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed in Iraq, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.” PeopleMenBelieveMadeHardProgressViolenceTelevisionTerribleSceneMen And WomenUniformsCiviliansMournHard To Believe Author:Condoleezza Rice
“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.” GivingYearsFactsStoriesLightFacesHumanityOrderStrongDarkFictionNovelViolenceWrittenBloodCrimeColdTerribleOffersQuietBraveBrilliantCaptureKillersHeroinesSerialsLight UpAftermathFusionSerial KillerDark PlacesDellBrave WomenFact And Fiction Author:Stephen King
“You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.” StoriesSufferingCan DoCommunityWorkViolenceBearsTerribleHappeningsHuman RightsIdeologyWitnessFree SpeechReportersTerrible Things Author:Anderson Cooper
“Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.” MenViolenceTerribleTragicRemindersInhumanityAuschwitz Author:Billy Graham
“Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.” KnowsWellsDoeViolenceTerribleCostSucceedResponseTerritoryProvokingConquest Book:Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Source: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
“We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.” PeopleKnowsWorldCountryActorsViolenceGroupsTerribleTerroristCommitOur CountryAround The WorldLoneActs Of ViolenceIsilLone WolfTerrorist Groups Author:Barack Obama
“I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.” KindMeanStruggleViolenceTerribleAll KindsAbsurdityGratificationImmediate Gratification Author:John Maus
“The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.” PeopleThinkingHardLevelsViolenceTerribleDown AndPrisonHorribleVarietyShootingOccupationHumiliationSpectacular Author:Molly Crabapple
“When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.” CausesViolenceGoes OnTerribleScalesLocalsCrueltyDividedKentuckyLarge ScaleHeartlessness Author:Wendell Berry
“We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” PeopleThinkingRememberHumanityChristViolenceTerribleUniqueHorseIslamTerrorCommittedBetray Author:Barack Obama