If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts--… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adjustments that no human mind can pretend to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from - why their terrorism truly earns the word "acts."… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I'd describe my inner life as constantly vigilant, always ready to flee or respond with violence. I've felt this way since I… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Revenge has probably been the most regular and prominent cause of fighting cited in anthropological accounts of pre-state societies. Violence was activated… — Azar Gat Copy Share Image
I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of… — Niels Arden Oplev 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 know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once,… — Clare Boothe Luce 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
So America's president now says most Jewish American voters are either ignorant or disloyal. It's such a dreadful thing to say, so… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
American cops didn't create that atmosphere, they're the ones though who have to live with it on a daily basis. These are… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs,… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
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
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
In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think,… — David Cage Copy Share Image
“Several researchers have found that the pressures that Black men and boys experience exact a toll on their (our)1 psychological and emotional… — Pedro A. Noguera 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
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“It was the custom, rigidly adhered to," Luke said, turning the brandy in his glass, "for the public executioner, before a quartering,… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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