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  • Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

    Islam   Use   Violence  
    Source: myislam.dk
  • My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

  • Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven.

  • All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.

    Lonely   Fall   Dark  
    William Nicholson (2002). “Firesong”, Egmont Books (UK)
  • Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

    Strength   Crazy   Roots  
    Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press
  • Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

    Interviewed with Michaela Latham, www.bbc.co.uk. October 06, 2003.
  • A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84 percent of those who are victims of domestic violence remain silent.

  • I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

  • I ain't never liked violence.

  • Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.

    Forever   Age   Violence  
  • What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.

  • Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

    Jesus   People   Guy  
  • We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

  • We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

    War   Yoga   Winning  
  • Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

    "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.
  • If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

    "John Lennon’s Most Radical Message" by John W.Whitehead, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2017.
  • The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation.

    Ideas   Space   Speech  
    Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.
  • I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more and more clean and clear. And out of that clarity we can create a beautiful world. Those scientists, if they are also meditators, will not create atomic bombs to destroy. They may use atomic energy to move trains so they don't pollute the air. They may use that atomic energy in the factories so they don't pollute air. Rather than killing man, the same atomic energy can be a tremendous help to save man and his future.

    Beautiful   Moving   Men  
    Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree) (1988). “The Greatest Challenge: The Golden Future : a Manifesto”
  • Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

    Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.183, Tara Publishing
  • Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance.

    Mother   Pain   Children  
    Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.270, W. W. Norton & Company
  • The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

    War   Practice   World  
    Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
  • Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

    Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.317, Yale University Press
  • I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!

    Wall   Eye   Men  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.136, Random House
  • Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we've had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It's very important to make that differentiation.

    Book   Years   People  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.

  • Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

    Years   Today   Violence  
  • Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

  • The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

    "The Dignity of Difference". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. October 29, 2015.
  • I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

    Years   People   Done  
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