Quotes of: Physical-violence Keyword

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

Gwen Moore

The language of physics is not math, but physics.

Khalid Masood

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, h...

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

In addition, Dr. Dannyboy has suggested a fifth element: positive thinking. Pointing out that their breathing, bathing, dining and screwing brought Alobar and Kudra much physical pleasure, and that an organism steeped in pleasure is an organism dispo...

Jitterbug Perfume

[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears responsibility to some degree for maintaining these protocols of intolerance, which could not be kept in place i...

Seeing Like a Feminist

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to p...

The Magicians

Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from ph...

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Violence promises us something we all deeply desire, something we genuinely want; violence promises us peace. Violence promises us, that in the end, when the last battle is fought, the last bomb is dropped, and the last enemy is slain, we will have w...

The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire

When I look closely at dairy, I see the hurtful exploitation of specifically female bodies so that some people can enjoy sensual pleasures of consumption while others enjoy the psychological pleasure of collecting profits from the exertions of somebo...

Pattrice Jones

I realize that violence is not more prevalent today than in previous periods of human history, but there is a difference. We have seen visionary standards adopted by the global community that espouse peace and human rights, and the globalization of i...

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and viole...

The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam

It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.

Graceling

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

The ABC of Anarchism

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Don’t you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies…

If All the Rebels Die

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

Small changes among the masses, can have a massive impact across the world.

Service: A Soldier's Journey: Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement, and the Violence of Urban Education

The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

If you had enough despair engulfed with anger, hated and violence in your lifetime...then take a pledge for PEACE today!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Violence or Peace...it's up to humanity to pick the road it wants to walk down. The choice is completely ours!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence