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
Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I remember watching 'Fargo.' I thought that was cruel. 'GoodFellas,' lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
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
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin… — Ascanio Sobrero Copy Share Image
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I’m not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I’ll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they’d hurt… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and… — Mel White Copy Share Image
The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I was constantly going to the movies. My parents let me see whatever I wanted to and they only pulled me out… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together… — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't… — Bobby Farrelly Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what… — Arwa Damon Copy Share Image
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of… — Amina Mama Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
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