Human Violence

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or violence:

“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock as not going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch’s greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)