Acts of violence Quote by Jean Vanier Download Open image “Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)” — Jean Vanier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acts of violence Crime Messages Needs Understood Violence
I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“violence doesn't stop merely by saying, 'we'll act based on love', because that can become just an idea that gets absorbed into the system.” — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“While violence is necessary, it is not the only instrument for change. There are others just as good. But you must accept violence- you… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.” — Alex de Waal Copy Share Image
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Sympathies and antipathies . . . Human friendships can very quickly become a club of mediocrities, enclosed in mutual flattery and approval, preventing people… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“By the time they're out of preschool, most children have already seen thousands of acts of violence.” — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are.… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
