Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my… — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No,… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death:… — Rose George Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality,… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
We're a miserably violent species. But there's a complication, which is we don't hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest. — Josephine Lawrence Copy Share Image
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I saw 'Rambo First Blood', and the next day, I took knives to school and threw them… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I'm not a violent person at all,When I felt like clubbing this particular journalist to death, I just directed it at myself.… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens… — John Maus Copy Share Image
All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
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