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“Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.”

Want I Can Violence Blood Right Now Scared Damn Torture Men Women Gore Involving

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.”

People Men Trying Order Evil Accepting Virtue Violence Teaching Despite Torture Contradiction Allowing Restraining

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.”

“Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.”

Seems Violence Dangerous Tests Invention Torture Endurance

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”

“I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence”

Suffering Violence Absolutes Torture Humiliation Ostracism

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.”

“The violence at the end is about personal torture.”

Violence Torture

Author:Shane Meadows

“The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain.”

War Language Interest Imagination Poverty Violence Racism Labor Prison Environmental Manifestation Torture Capitalist Sensibility Misogyny Capital Punishment

Author:Lawrence Joseph