Appeals Quote by John Zerzan

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the…

— Anonymous

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

When you have violence, there's victims, which entertainment tends not to explore that as much.

— Kari Skogland

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,

— Barbara Kruger

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter…

— James A. Baldwin

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly…

— Tom Robbins

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing…

— Henning Mankell

Civilized life exacts its toll.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long…

— Paul Bloom

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can…

— Robert Bringhurst

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

— Nick Cave