Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it's not Disney. It's the MMA. It's a violent, brutal… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
9/11 was not an act of war. It was a criminal act. It was a simple. Criminal act by a bunch of… — Pierre Sprey Copy Share Image
Within the United States especially, the often violent response to nonviolent forms of youth protests must be analyzed within the framework of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Peaceful people infinitely deserve our love and our respect; violent people urgently deserve our strong determination to show and teach them the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
I do believe the world is a pretty sad, troubled, and violent place. Maybe that's why I focus on the trouble. Even… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good. — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
