I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“Not only is this teacher educating her children in violence, she also has to continuously escalate her own violence to keep control.… — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“We are following with great concern the preparations of the crusaders to launch war on the former capital of Muslims...and to install… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Gun violence touches every class, color, and community, with thirty-three thousand people dying from guns each year—an average of ninety a day.… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where… — Satoshi Tajiri Copy Share Image
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have… — David Hogg Copy Share Image
This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema,… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
We cannot - and will not - tolerate hatred, bigotry, and violence in our society, and no one should ever have to… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What greater violence can be done to the poet’s experience than to drag it into an early morning classroom and to go… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It's always fair to criticize, to question, to engage about things like whitewashing and violence against women and choices of lack of… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
