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,...

I’m afraid this is the last chance, because a collapse of this summit may lead to, as I’ve said before, despair on both sides, and despair leads to violence.

We got into an argument over the color of love. I said it was pink, and he said it was red. So you see, I had no other choice but to stab him.

Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.

Guy Boy Man,” says Baby Doll15. “Violence is not the answer.”I look down the hallway, steely eyed. “Then I don’t like the question.” Sweetie and I high five.

Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in oursociety. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with theroots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. Weneed...

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.

I could scarf down a scarf faster than I could eat any other throat warmer, with the possible exception of your clenched hands around my neck.

Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

…always-the sharp,plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem ‘Confessions’)

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

I was trying to foment a little dissension.’ He paused. ‘No, that’s too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike—injecting a little love?’ He snorted. ‘Through violence, of course, like all religious...

They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn’t devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.

I am not anti-gun. I’m pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns...

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion mixes explosively with (and...

Evil is not just a theory of paradox, but an actual entity that exists only for itself. From its ether of manifestation that is garlanded in perpetual darkness, it not only influences and seeks the...

Of course, I’m aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own...

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

Any violation of a woman’s body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force.

They” hate us because they feel–and “they” are not wrong–that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do...

Let’s be very clear about this, asshole: I’ve been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me ‘Calm down.’ Being raped comes next, and that’s a...

It were indeed to be wish’d that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such...

Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I am the sum of all somes, with a few scattered nones and nuns thrown in (though I didn’t throw the nuns in, as I don’t condone violence).

Dear Mary Duende, It’s freezing here in the trenches, but loneliness is colder than any hyperthermia. Gunshots and shrapnel have become my companions. But life is better now than it was when I was at...

I aint sure we’ve seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they’d have to build a annex on to hell.

Sex and violence … are the two great engines of the world.

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

Sentencing enhancements won’t get police to investigate crimes they don’t take seriously to begin with. They won’t stop police from harassing trans women on the street because they assume all trans women are sex workers....

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth....

I’m for the revolutionaries but against the revolution.

Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing changes in what already exists, but in defense of the existing...

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.