Random Violence Quotes

#1. Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.

Bell Hooks

#2. Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back.

Miguel Syjuco

#3. If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

Leonard Sax

#4. Random violence is incredibly infectious.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#5. The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.

Kurt Schmoke

#6. Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

Abbie Hoffman

#7. Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)

Matt Ridley

#8. Molly stood over the stove, naked, except for a wide sash from which was slung the scabbard for her broadsword at the center of her back, giving the impression that she had won honors in the Miss Nude Random Violence Pageant. Her

Christopher Moore

#9. At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

Susan Sarandon

#10. Violence is never random.

Mary Summer Rain

#11. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put human face on random cosmic violence.

Carl Sagan

#12. A random act of violence," his mother called it. "A totally senseless thing." Unnecessary qualifiers, he sometimes wants to tell her, as the universe is random and senseless place.

Thomas Pierce

#13. Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

Orson Scott Card

#14. Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Constance Baker Motley

#15. When you've had less than little in some things, you're grateful for even a spoonful of more.

Nora Roberts

#16. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

Al Alvarez

#17. Randomness and lack of warning are the attributes of human violence we fear most, but you now know that human violence is rarely random and rarely without warning.

Gavin De Becker

#18. The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

Chris Hedges

#19. The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

Richard Wagner

#20. There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.

Brian O'Driscoll

#21. My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.

Christopher Titus

#22. For real men serve their country with random acts of kindness, not vicious acts of violence. And real soldiers have one duty, and one duty only; they have a duty to mutiny!

Joss Sheldon

#23. There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

Ted Demme

#24. Joy is an incredible alarm clock. It will wake you up and keep you up and pick you up and gently pull you through a thousand rejections along the way.

Jon Acuff

#25. Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment ... In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Milton Friedman

#26. Technology breeds anarchy. It distributes these tools at random. And with them goes the provocation for violence. The ability to make and use savage destroyers falls inevitably into the hands of smaller and smaller groups until at last the group is a single individual. Moneo

Frank Herbert

#27. Only you're right in saying she's too good an opinion of herself to think of you. The saucy jade! I should like to know where she'd find a better!

Elizabeth Gaskell

#28. In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.

Alexei Mordashov

#29. As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.

Jonathan Raymond

#30. Every day in every way I am getting better and better.*

Bill Bryson