Crime Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image ““Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.”” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Violence
“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.” — Eckhart Tolle 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
“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Violence is the only way to achieve freedom, it seems. I wouldn't have thought so before all of this. My escape plan was a… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“While violence is necessary, it is not the only instrument for change. There are others just as good. But you must accept violence- you… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Violence is there because you have not grown your potential for love; it is the absence of love.” — Osho Copy Share Image
“To be free from violence means everything to me. It is more important to me than sex, food, position, for this thing is corrupting… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.” — P.T. Denys 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
“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace. I am convinced that if we… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image