Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm from Norway, and when kids were reading comics, I was reading Icelandic and Norwegian sagas about the Vikings. The glorification of… — Kristofer Hivju Copy Share Image
Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
I used to struggle a lot with the depiction of violence in 'EastEnders.' I had more meetings with producers about that than… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed.… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person… — Kelleen Goerlitz Copy Share Image
It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways.… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
“Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
From climate change to the gun violence epidemic, our nation faces many pressing problems. We - the President and Congress - were… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
“So you're a fellow mercenary, then." "Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?" "Don't ask for that. All it means… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It think acceptance levels sort of swings back and forth. Like in the 60's there was a lot more freedom with sex… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“Is racial violence is the answer to happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there… — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
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