And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys...

He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file’s pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of...

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn’t.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause,...

As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her treasure the brains...

I just don’t think the violence will achieve anything. The debt campaigners have never been violent, and they have achieved a lot.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

It’s not like it’s (the violence) all gone if there is not a public announcement.

I was remarkably calm. Calm and fatigued. There would be no violence. It was like a storm coming up. The café chairs are carried inside, the awnings are rolled up, but nothing happens. The storm...

Clearly there are common sense things we can do to help children to have better lives and keep them from becoming so despondent that their only perceived solution is to kill themselves or others. How...

I don’t punch walls, because walls don’t punch back. I also don’t punch things that can and do punch back.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

religious violence,” we tend to think only of holy war and (especially since September 11) religious terrorism. However, those are not the only types of religious violence.

You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a...

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Most Wanted.” It’s good to be desired. I’d be honored to be shot at for a large reward, or a small cup of coffee.

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of...

We’d be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn’t have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They’re killed because one has a gun.

Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you need to. Feel it…It’s not going to make a neat little hole. First – it’ll obliterate...

I shook my head. “I’m good, Nicky helped.”Nicky looked at Edward. “She’s having one of those what-if-killing-feels-really-good, doesn’t-that-make-me-a-bad-person moments.” Edward nodded as if that made perfect sense. “Then it feels good. We can’t really control...

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

So does he condone clinic violence or does he not?

Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are are going to answer my question.

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

I can kill a bad guy, but I can’t save anyone. I’m not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.

You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.””And there’s a lot to be said for knocking...

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an...

I’m confident of this, in spite of all this violence. It’s not going to last very long. I think that now that the government has taken action it’s going to improve considerably.

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

He is being investigated for allegations of threatening violence, excessive use of force, possession of maybe an illegal weapon and violating the electoral process.

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

I chose not to fight it. Eating them…is my revenge.

The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true “peace...

I often find myself in a room full of strangers, and very often it’s a tough crowd. But I’m a master networker, so for me, prison isn’t such a big deal. A smile extends much...

We can’t win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as...

A day came when I should have died,and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral. If one man has no right to impose his wishes on another, then ten million men have no right to impose their wishes on the...

Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim–in fact, the majority–who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their...

—¡,Me buscabais?!—Así es, Gryal Ibori.—¡Pues aquí me tenéis! —gritó furioso, con el alma ardiente y la voz quebrada. Estaba cansado de todo y de todos. Sólo quería ver a Lorette, reunirse con ella y estar...

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.

There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can’t help break now and then on TV