Aestheticization Of Violence Quotes & Sayings

Our conceptual maps tend to lack a way to conceive the immanence of violence and power in the ideals and practices that have become dominant in the Western tradition. Mass death has tended to be conceived as something accidental, something outside the ordinary run of events. I think the difficulty in coming to terms with the peculiarities of the Western will to power has to do with the absence of a central metaphor capable of describing the link between consumption and death. The consumptive mentality has in many respects been normalized, as has the violence that underpins and is the effect of systems of universal judgment. Certainly the aestheticization of difference is coextensive with the romance with violence that has become so characteristic of contemporary Western society. — Deborah Root

Lightening fire is quenched by other fire. [102] — Sol T. Plaatje

The main purpose of life is to love, is to care, is to share, is to serve, and is to grow passion for compassion. — Debasish Mridha

I would show him the hotel brochure, but — Jojo Moyes

That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world. — Lennart Meri

Youir're doing this wrong. — Will Advise

i'm a realist, miss randall. if you show me a glass, i see it as neither half-empty nor half-full. i see enough water to drown a man, if i can find a way to put it in his lungs. — D.L. Snell

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military manoeuvres, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of. — Terry Pratchett

We ate food that wasn't healthy. We let dirty dishes stack up in the sink. We slept too much.
We talked about everything, everything but the slaughter at the mall. Our past, our future. We planned. We dreamed. — Dean Koontz

The whole world heard you tell poor Angie Robinson that "Chris Edwards was your heart" - man, it's one of the most fucking romantic things I've ever heard. — Anne Tenino

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. — Robert Kegan