Crime Quote by Steven Pinker

“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

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible…

— Carroll Quigley

“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

“Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for…

— Steven Pinker

“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to…

— Gregory B. Sadler

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can…

— Gloria Steinem

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as…

— Corey, James S. A

“Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and…

— Tess Gerritsen

A lust for the violence is the science of their behavior.

— Krs One

“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“violence doesn't stop merely by saying, 'we'll act based on love', because that can become just an idea that gets absorbed into the system.”

— David Bohm

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

— Henri Nouwen