Violent Street Gangs

Famous quotes containing the words violent, street and/or gangs:

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”
—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)