“Nonviolence is not just a state of being where violence is absent or invisible. It is a conscious, active effort not to… — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“Not that I condoned violence, but if anyone was deserving of it, it was people who could hate and harm people on… — Jessica Gadziala Copy Share Image
Enslavement is when one person completely controls another person, uses violence or violent threats to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and… — Julia Ormond Copy Share Image
I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an… — Susan Sarandon 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
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
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
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
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
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 reduction in gun violence President Obama claims to desperately want comes from law enforcement and prosecution, not from political rhetoric, lectures… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want… — Mackenzie Astin Copy Share Image
There's no way of preventing the media from covering attacks as huge events and until the media stops doing that, they will… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than anything else. So it's important… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Native women and girls experience violence at far higher rates than any other female population in the country - a crisis that… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
“Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the… — John McGinnis Copy Share Image
We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and… — John Vasconcellos Copy Share Image
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
