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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are read more
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. read more
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is read more
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can read more
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high read more
Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture read more
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a read more
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's read more
Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the read more
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.