Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all… — Lola Montez Copy Share Image
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
“The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence,… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is… — Jean Illsley Clarke Copy Share Image
We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
“Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than "terror"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Things will be different this time," Caine said. "There was too much contention, too much violence the last time. I tried to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was cyber-bullied before all those Myspace-related suicides, so my school principal wasn't really impressed when my mom complained about what was… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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