Adventure Quote by Tom Robbins

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

— John Lennon

Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted…

— David Deida

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 is the fear to other's ideals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

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

— Henri Nouwen

We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second…

— Marge Piercy

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

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

— Dan Simmons

How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives…

— Claudia Rankine

...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

— Andrea Dworkin