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
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
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
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
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
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Being a doctor, I worry that the patient may be uncomfortable about sharing something. It could be sexual dysfunction, an eating disorder,… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
From a magical point of view, the term 'nonviolence' doesn't work well. Every beginning Witch learns that you can't cast a spell… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's… — René Girard Copy Share Image
It's not about speech, it's about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Non-violent resistance to evil is a quintessential element of the character of a real human being. If someone does wrong to me,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring… — Anonymous 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
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