Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they… — Salman Rushdie 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
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben -… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us...… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form… — Eckhart Tolle 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
Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
