Quotes of: Violence Keyword

...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all these by fighting." (MLK) "...If given a choice between violent resista...

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and globalization are happily shredding su...

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Visible alternatives shatter the sense of inevitability, that the system must, necessarily, be patched together in the same form -- this is why it became such an imperative of global governance to stamp them out, or, when that's not possible, to ensu...

Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination

On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it has struck me that much of the mental behavior that we sometimes denounce as ethnocentrism and cultural insensi...

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory, believes that in each person is the Creator’s image and that everyone who tramples it offends God. As hol...

The Violence of Love

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, ...

Robert F. Kennedy

Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through a realization of the fundamental oneness of all life, they brought more violence and hatred, more divisions ...

Eckhart Tolle

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, classism, and all other forms of human discrimination, speciesism involves vi...

Gary L. Francione

Not one person on earth is immune to crime and trauma.

Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Florence Welch

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

Leonard Boswell

Peace is a deeper reality than violence." p. 231

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.

Little Birds

❤ Without peace in your life....what good is anything else?✌

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.

Shadow Wave

Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills

Predatory Kill

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The Principles Of Netiquette

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

The Road

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Nelson Mandela

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

Niels Arden Oplev