Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today,… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
We must stand united in our commitment to eradicating domestic violence and uplift the courageous individuals who have faced its devastating effects. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless; someone… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
“Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni,… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
“Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It… — Barbara Kingsolver 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 no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence;… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud,… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and… — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you've been raised in a home of love, and for your loved one to be taken away from you through violence,… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the… — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Copy Share Image
You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time.… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
In Maidanek, Poland, there was only one place where the children were treated kindly; at the entrance to the gas chamber each… — Gideon Hausner 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
“As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.” — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City… — Lucinda Franks Copy Share Image