Bones Quote by Kenneth Turan

“We're the sons appalled by violence, with no capacity for inflicting physical pain, useless at beating and clubbing, unfit to pulverize even the most…

— Philip Roth

“The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd…

— Oscar Wilde

That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that…

— E. F. Schumacher

“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings of a…

— Alain de Botton

“Violence takes on many forms, sadly violence is such an everyday part of our lives that we have mostly become oblivious to it. It…

— Mango Wodzak

Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally exhausted? Or…

— Henry Giroux

“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and…

— James Gilligan

“We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.”

— Jayme K

“We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and…

— Daniel Gilbert

“The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which that which is pitiless—that is to say, that which is brutalizing—predominates, is to transform a…

— Victor Hugo

“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

— Renata Adler