“In some sense, he said, a community was a giant collection of habits occurring among thousands of people that, depending on how… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos;… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
“Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it… — Jacques Rancière Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both… — Fredrik Bond Copy Share Image
“mob violence is what the prison psychologist calls “infantile omnipotence.” This is the feeling that because something has not happened to you… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother,… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“When the payoff for organizing violence at a large scale tumbles, the payoff from violence at a smaller scale is likely to… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its… — Willie Mays Copy Share Image
It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well,… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech,… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
We need laws against rape and such violence; but at the same time, if women are misusing the law, we need to… — Pooja Bedi Copy Share Image
The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . .… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil… — Pele Copy Share Image
The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings,… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
