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Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the… — John Jortin Copy Share Image
If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
This attitude of how society views women as chattel - that's the biggest thing to overcome. When I first started a stake… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday.… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
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just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
“Farah gaped, unable to fathom his brutality. She shouldn't be shocked, she'd been around the worst sort of criminals for more years… — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama cried during his announcement of new executive actions designed to curb gun violence in the United States by restricting… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a… — John Green Copy Share Image
We live in a time of global transformation. The power on Earth no longer lies with the forces of imperialistic globalisation, but… — Dieter Duhm Copy Share Image
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr.… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved… — John Irving Copy Share Image
In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain… — Charles K. Armstrong Copy Share Image
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I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
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