If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools,...

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

I both made the knife-fighting team, and I got cut. If only love were so easy to understand.

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said...

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

I don’t ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He’s tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its...

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

to take steps to curb the incitement, curb the violence.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate … Real love has always ended in bloodshed.

I do not blame himfor not knowing the gentleness of my soul.When I only showed him,how violently I loved.

In the preface of ‘The Rifles’… Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing.

Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition condemns terrorism and political assassination. When the colonized uses them, the leftist colonizer becomes unbearably embarrassed. He makes an...

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

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

Of course there have been some isolated incidents of violence masterminded by the opposition camp,

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because...

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence,...

Is racial violence is the answer for happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there is no difference? Why?

The ocean waves were choppy. Good thing I know karate and was able to fight back.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn’t be a problem.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

I slowly, deliberately began to work the blade into his throat. He squirmed and kicked and fought agains tme, but in his current state, I was stronger. His will to live was pathetic, just like...

that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

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...

As the boys screamed and hauled off handfuls of mulch, Olivier had slowly, deliberately, gently taken Gabri’s hand and held it before gracefully lifting it to his lips. The boys had watched, momentarily stunned, as...

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting–or even demanding–their own enslavement.

Listen and listen good, shitbrain. If you ever touch someone I love again, I will shove this cross down your throat and watch you choke on it. You want to know why a Prince of...

It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused. Intolerance and cruelty have occurred in the name of truth. To that extent...

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary – grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon.

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don’t deal with the causes we will never be safe.

I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go home and live happily ever after while the bad guys were put in jail. Except...

He’d been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they’d be safe out here in the suburbs? The world was violent, rotten, corrupt, seething with hatred...

Your Excellency,” [Chief Wimbe] said, turning to face the president. “I’d like to congratulate you not only for what you’ve done in Malawi, but all across the great continent of Africa. We’re having about all...

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Today you closed your eyes on violence, tomorrow, the violence will close your eyes on you.

the flames are silent,Peace is violent,Tears are frozen’cause massacre was chosen.~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he’ll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

They were no help in Karachi (site of escalating violence) or with the bomb blasts. All I got from them were concocted stories of corruption. What is the purpose of intelligence, if they can’t infiltrate...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable...

As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona,...