Lewis Richardson wrote that his quest to analyze peace with numbers sprang from two prejudices. As a Quaker, he believed that "the moral evil in war outweighs the moral good, although the latter is conspicuous." As a scientist, he thought there was t...
Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes
If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.
We’d like to believe that by discussing what has occurred will change things. Until now, here’s a mental illness that must be dealt with by going to the root.
...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.
Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68
Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38
The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.
What are world needs is not more violence, hatred and injustice that keeps consuming mankind but love,peace and justice for all of humanity to bask in.
Our nation & our children must come to learn that nothing in life will ever be solved by violence. It will just help breed more!
Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated ...
This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or petty bureaucratic intrusions.
If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.
He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
