The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world should sleep without fear at least for one night, sleep without fear. Everyone in the world should eat… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other… — Dexter Scott King Copy Share Image
Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated,… — James Gilligan Copy Share Image
Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff… — Michael Gough Copy Share Image
Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
“The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out… — David R. Smock Copy Share Image
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is… — Eugene Rivers Copy Share Image
There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
“In the preface of "The Rifles" "Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike… — Kyriacos C. Markides Copy Share Image
War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the… — Philip Bobbitt Copy Share Image
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Knowing that more people associate Chicago with street violence than generosity is difficult for me because, despite all my proclamations of being… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
“If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to… — Gilles Dauvé Copy Share Image
Those who seek to improve our country through peaceful protest and protected speech, I want you to know that your voice is… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence.… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image