The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims… — Leslie Morgan Steiner Copy Share Image
Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people… — Bob Kerrey Copy Share Image
In my view, nothing would do more to reduce violence in American cities than genuine full employment - a job at a… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
“Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
“Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled… — Mark Rice Copy Share Image
“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the… — John Jortin Copy Share Image
If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
There is a problem here in America when it comes to police violence and gun violence, that I believe is being ignored… — Jumaane Williams Copy Share Image
“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.” — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
When radical extremist antisemites sow seeds of division within our nation, it is imperative we stand together, as Alabamians and Americans, in… — Katie Britt Copy Share Image
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
There are dangers surrounding innocuousness and consensus and habit. ISO organizes hundreds of people on technical committees who are, no doubt, trying… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Even the wettest violence, in the end, is cooked down to the stuff of court cases; a ream of paper, a few… — William Landay Copy Share Image
People should not have to worry about violence in their own neighbourhoods, but sadly, that is a reality that more and more… — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
“If we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill each other?… — Mother Theresa Copy Share Image
Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What is at risk are the lives of hard-working Salvadoran families. In fact, unchecked violence was one of the main drivers of… — Nayib Bukele Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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