Walter Kirn Quotes

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Walter Kirn

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• BJP is the mothership of violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Violence

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • More
  • Feet
  • Panic

• I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • High
  • Violence

• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Violence
  • Organization

• I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Horror

• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Violence

• I love horror movies.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Horror

• I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Violence
  • Serious
  • Waiting

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Violence
  • Religion
  • Dreams

• There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Evil
  • Fans
  • Humor

• You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Know
  • Violence

• Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Kind

• Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Violence
  • After
  • Ended

• Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Interest
  • Doe
  • Horror

• I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn't miss it.

  

  Blake Farenthold

• I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

  

  Kelly Bishop
  • People
  • Fun

• We can choose how we will participate in relationships, we have no choice about whether we will participate in them.

  

  Gary Smalley
  • Choose
  • Relationships
  • Participate

• I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Career
  • Boy
  • Brave

• Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Violence
  • Horror
  • Panic