“Between the brutality that would sacrifice a single innocent life to a fear without a name, and the enlightenment that would sacrifice… — John Williams Copy Share Image
We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
This is the problem with the United States: there's no leadership. A leader would say, 'Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“After all the shit they'd gone through - the pain, the loss, the heartache, the straight up evil brutality that made them… — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Order rooted in and maintained and restored by fear, intimidation, brutality and incarceration is immoral and untenable. Justice is order's intended soul… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
