All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.
The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.