violence Quotes

“When shoes and clothes and food, when even hope is gone, we'll have the rifle.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:violence despair

“a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated.”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

topic:violence obedience

“Thou shalt not stand idly by to the hurl of thy fellowman.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

topic:killing violence

“It is more likely . . . mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:humanity violence

“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:truth beauty violence

“For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

topic:love violence

“the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

topic:morality violence

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