Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing.… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to… — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way? — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all,… — Eric San Copy Share Image
Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No.… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a violent home, the fights, the screaming, the pain all blur together. To survive, you block as… — Darryl Glenn Copy Share Image
I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. — Richard King Copy Share Image
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
