But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
I'm a really emotional cook. Not violent, but I don't like someone coming in while I'm cooking. I'm notorious for themed dinner… — Kelis Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for… — Tariq Ramadan 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
I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires… — Ibn Ishaq Copy Share Image
Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge.… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means… — Kwame Copy Share Image
This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Someone said once that they'd never heard of a crime they couldn't imagine committing, and I realized then that if I had… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all… — Robert A. Burton 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
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image