The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. — Plato Copy Share Image
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. — Rumi Copy Share Image
There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. — Plato Copy Share Image
We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“This is how he always imagined- a dangerous place full of mystery and violent kids.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated. — Tim Bishop 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
[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
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
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
When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If they hear people running for - president... despite all the other problems that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Antiwar protestors actually sabotaged and caused a huge amount of damage to military installations and military property during the war. I'm related… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image