Rollo May Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

  Rollo May

  Violence, Arise, Powerlessness

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

• Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

  Rollo May

  Self Esteem, Society, Trying

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

• The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

  Rollo May

  Men, Violence, Way To Live

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

• When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

  Rollo May

  Flare Up, Mad, Feelings

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 1: Introduction: Our Schizoid World, p. 31, 1969.

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