“Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits’ end. So social stability depends a lot… — George Hammond Copy Share Image
“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has not gone to historical black colleges - Hillary Clinton. He's not met with the mothers of children who have… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in… — Richard Helms Copy Share Image
Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
You see a briefcase for business, a bookbag for education, a knife and gun for violence. Then there's government, law, media overall,… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
“Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
“I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
“If violence breeds violence and hatred breeds the same...let's show humanity peace and love. Then we'll truly start making a difference!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record.… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and,… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money,… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and… — Rosie Batty Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
For every act of violence and messiness there are a million acts of kindness and goodness. It just depends where you look.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try… — Poul Henningsen Copy Share Image
If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
We've got a lot of violence in the world right now, a lot of upheaval in America with this election coming up,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the… — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence just like me. And without exception, without question, every one… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
