For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for… — Origen Copy Share Image
If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the… — Randy Forbes Copy Share Image
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert,… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The truth is what facts are. I like facts. I like things to line up and be clear, and when we are… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Violence wouldn’t have solved anything. If I had hit him, he’d only hit back. The cycle won’t end.” . . . “Not… — Mehana Usha Rani Copy Share Image
You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
“Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
So many red lines have been crossed that people seem to think it is acceptable for politicians and the media to actually… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
If your country isn't stable and free from the threat of violence then you can't get to work, you can't get to… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
“You can’t know its mind, and you can’t control it. This creature is nothing but war incarnate. If you traffic with it,… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I was elected to fight for the people of New Jersey, to win federal investment in our infrastructure, to strengthen our health… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“But I had made contact with a different planet from the one my parents or sister lived on. It was a planet… — Lucky Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
“He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than… — Sam Dunn Copy Share Image
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
A society permissive of rhetorical dehumanization is necessarily more vulnerable to actual dehumanization. Allow racial contempt to spread unchallenged, and racist violence… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in… — Ti West Copy Share Image