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  • Physical violence is the basis of authority.

    Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.185, eKitap Projesi
  • The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.

  • If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

  • It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other... Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

    Hate   Confused   Law  
  • The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

    Mean   Men   Rights  
    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin
  • Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

    Book   Mean   Hands  
  • I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.

  • Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

    Peace   Freedom   Hate  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”
  • I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

    Selfish   Party   Divorce  
  • The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.

  • No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

  • There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

    Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.246, Penguin
  • The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

  • I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .

    Men   Long   Political  
    Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr
  • We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

  • A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”
  • The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

    Mean   Men   Rights  
    Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.812, Hamilton Books
  • The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

    Mean   Men   Rights  
    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.203, Penguin
  • Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

    People   Use   Violence  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

    Hurt   Play   Might  
    Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.
  • As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.

    Running   Fear   Teenager  
    Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, Viking Press
  • I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing
  • Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

    Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.182, Verso
  • We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

    I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
  • I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

    Taken   Blow   Thinking  
    National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.
  • We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.

    Fear   Thinking   Animal  
  • My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.

  • There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.

    Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.188, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

    "Chazz Palminteri: Feeling Mighty Fine" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.
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