Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors.… — Sara Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
To me violence, once you've done one violent act it leads to another, it leads to another, it leads to another, it… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
Since I didn't have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“[W]hile the use of non-lethal weapons such as tasers and LEDIs may not necessarily reduce the number of civilian casualties, they have… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can reach WITHIN women to fvck/construct us from the inside… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm harder than DJ Khaled playing the fucking quiet game. The fuck am I saying? Tyler's not even a violent name. About… — Tyler The Creator Copy Share Image
Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“What I do know is that if you give a human being a chance to be stupid and violent, then they're going… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The anti-violence people killed westerns when networks knuckled under to the the pressure groups who said violent westerns increased crime in the… — Robert Fuller Copy Share Image
The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two… — Jon Shenk Copy Share Image