Quotes of: Physical-violence Keyword

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

Victoria Beckham

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

Vernor Vinge

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Yves Saint Laurent

I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.

Ayelet Zurer

I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.

Britt Ekland

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Romeo Miller

It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.

Twyla Tharp

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

Victoria Abril

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

Lucy Liu

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Freeman Dyson

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because a...

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to communicate with one another all the time and as freely as possible? We cannot leave it to time t...

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

The fact is that in any open society people constantly say things that other people don’t like. It’s completely normal that should happen. And in any confident, free society you just shrug it off and you proceed. There is no way of creating a fre...

Salman Rushdie

eduvstThe fact is that in any open society people constantly say things that other people don’t like. It’s completely normal that should happen. And in any confident, free society you just shrug it off and you proceed. There is no way of creating...

Salman Rushdie

Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person’s face that anything changes. All empires are hungry cannibals...

Carnival: A Novel

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

A Clockwork Orange

...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.

Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence