He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.
Matthew Gregory LewisI had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
Patton OswaltTags: humor gender writing romance violence femininity romance-novels masculinity sailors
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma GandhiTags: wisdom truth happiness violence satyagraha
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
P.D. JamesEveryone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.
Jack Henry AbbottTheir violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.
J.G. BallardTags: sex violence exploration perversion sensation
I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.
Alison LarkinTags: politics violence poverty cruelty plays conservatism thoughts musicals handbags
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
Tom RobbinsTags: war violence thought-provoking
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."
(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919)
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Mao ZedongTags: class revolution violence
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