First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language—violence.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if… — Gloria Steinem 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
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I try to be as specific as possible when saying 'Arab Muslims' because there are a lot of different Muslims. I've never… — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to make movies simply about life. Naturally, when I'm doing that, horror, violence, and all those kinds of things… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Children, presenting at our border, who are fleeing violence, who are fleeing prosecution, who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis.… — Jen Psaki Copy Share Image
“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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
Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You've gotta be careful. People don't want to be reminded of Vietnam and Korea. We lost thousands of fine young men and… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence,… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“In a place of extreme violence and devoid of order, the practical subsumes the principle. I drifted down the path of bribery… — Jason Whiteley Copy Share Image
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I never, never supporting any violence and everybody that know me, and all the countries here they know well that is no… — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to… — David Satcher Copy Share Image
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As our city and country begin the long, rocky road of recovery from COVID, we still must avoid the pitfalls of another… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
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