During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've always been terrified of violence which is probably why I keep making violent films - I'm trying to exorcise some demons… — Nick Love Copy Share Image
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
But what if it were you? What if you were stuffed in a human body and let loose on this planet only… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“No decent person deliberately chooses to be violent or cruel. We must remove our blinkers and learn that in order to live… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape.… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
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