In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern. — Douglas A. Lawson Copy Share Image
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Violence is never an acceptable outcome in the exercise of free speech. — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything. — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.’ — Martin Luther King, Jr.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless… — Claire Wolfe Copy Share Image
Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A.… — Common Copy Share Image
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
In the global push to stop gender-based violence, men in the entertainment industry need to join forces with women to end violence… — John Kani Copy Share Image
It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I would say that while most Muslims take offense at the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons, they would never resort… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Young girls frequently report that their early sexual experiences were coerced. In a study in South Africa, 30 percent of girls report… — Njovana Watts Copy Share Image
As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime. — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out. — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Violence and force are the natural tools of failures, those unable to persuade or compromise. — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“I ask for guidance. And for courage. And I beg - oh, how I beg - that I never become so desensitized… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
While our country has made great strides, the Jewish community is still the target of anti-Semitism, and we must continue to stand… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor… — Abdul Qadeer Khan Copy Share Image
To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I think the animation helps divorce the violence from reality. The sex certainly doesn't look all that realistic. I think the fact… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image