“Farah gaped, unable to fathom his brutality. She shouldn't be shocked, she'd been around the worst sort of criminals for more years… — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
“The Soul is indeed such that the mahavrats (five great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Wars will never cease while men still kill other animals for food, for to turn any living creature into a roast, a… — Agnes Ryan Copy Share Image
“I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and… — Rory Miller Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Many public officials are using the power of their offices to defy the law of the land. Through their irresponsible actions, their… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“During the second half of the twentieth century this Law of the Jungle has finally been broken, if not rescinded. In most… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a… — Noeleen Heyzer Copy Share Image
The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has brought into his cabinet James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who is Secretary of Defense. A "mad dog" is a dangerous… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image