Culture Quote by Charlotte McConaghy Download Open image ““I think it's civilization [that] makes us violent.”” — Charlotte McConaghy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Discipline Order Society Tame Wild
“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“For the earth is filled with violence, and every living thing has lost its way.” — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Violence is not just an emotion, it is a culture. Some suffer in it, some are born into it and others cannot live without… — Isabella Poretsis Copy Share Image
“I believe that in the deepest places in their hearts, people are violent and take pleasure in hurting each other.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“You should be querying why you consider a violent society as being normal.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
“We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“She was abstractly beautiful, as I had always wished to be, but I now found her ugly, understanding as I did now that real… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
“But in the night I slept and I dreamed of feathers in my lungs. So many I choked on them. I woke coughing and… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
“Forget dying. I suddenly wanted to inflict pain. My anger was a living, breathing thing controlling my body, making me shake. It was funny… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
“I met a boy and he told me a story. There was a lady long ago who spent her life coughing up feathers. And… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
