Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did more harm than good,' which I remember thinking was (a) euphemistic and (b) a slipshod expression unworthy of a professor of English.
Christopher HitchensTags: violence euphemism edward-said tel-aviv
If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
Sena Jeter NaslundTags: life death violence nonviolence
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand RussellTags: fear violence discrimination xenophobia herd-mentality exclusion herd-behavior
A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.
Maximilien RobespierreTags: violence french-revolution robespierre divine-violence walter-benjamin
Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.
Maximilien RobespierreTags: violence french-revolution robespierre divine-violence walter-benjamin
People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
Andrew VachssThe most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22
Thomas MertonTags: non-violence violence
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
Antonia FraserTags: hatred oppression persecution violence terrorism
The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
Tori AmosThe most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps
James GilliganTags: violence humiliation
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