We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike back because we assume that we must defend ourselves, defend our name, our...

We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only from our humility can learn to be redeemers, can learn to work together in...

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain’t a heck of a way to be in...

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

But in terms of “psychological” time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears.

If there isn’t at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is mirrored in the pattern of grotesque raping in areas of outright conflict from...

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our...

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn’t granted to him.

Resorting to violence, crackdowns and authoritarian methods, as we see today toward students, are not only illegal and lacking popular, religious and moral legitimacy, but will also bear no result and will only exacerbate the...

The JoeCartoon content is a lot of fun. It’s cool, edgy, would lend itself to a huge range of content on mobile phone handsets – and don’t get me started on videogames. Instead of rescuing...

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

He’s got the world’s softest knuckles. They’re like rubber the way they bounce off my steel balls.

Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.

Cullen was a bully. Bullies are cowards. You plant your feet and stay calm, they don’t know what to do.

Gentle Mother, font of mercy,save our sons from war, we pray,stay the swords and stay the arrows,let them know a better day,Gentle Mother, strength of women,help our daughters through this fray,soothe the wrath and tame...

As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of...

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this–that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply...

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the...

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

We’re not suggesting that Mr. Roberts condones clinic violence.

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the desert sands, and pacing the margin of the sea, and chasing...

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come...

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.

Here’s a rule of life: You don’t get to pick what bad things happen to you

You can’t talk about fucking in America, people say you’re dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that’s cool.

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both...

The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence.

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will...

If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances.” ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could...

The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest’s servant, our hearts go out...

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as...

The only people who don’t need elevator pitches are elevator salesmen. I once tried to sell an elevator to a man who owned a one-story building. He didn’t buy from me, but he did sell...

There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.

So yes, I think the threat of violence would save lives, innocent lives. I’m sorry to say its true.

My hobby is boxing up all my stuff and then unpacking it and pretending I just moved and I’m getting a fresh start on life. And I make love like a professional boxer, only without...

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps