Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: war history nuclear weapons USA tragedy Soviet Union Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. —Carl Sagan in Broca's Brain More about this quote Tags: genius humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With our love, we could save the world. —George Harrison More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. —Nick Diamos More about this quote Tags: listening lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: humanity commonality peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. . . . Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: war love hate violence hatred darkness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The warrior energy of men now has to be used paradoxically to destroy the warrior psyche and the politics of warfare. It will require more courage and aggression than we’ve ever seen on the battlefield. —Sam Keen More about this quote Tags: war courage violence warrior energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: peace violence civil society Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even fighting in self-defense is wrong, though it is higher than fighting in aggression. There is no “righteous” indignation, because indignation comes from not recognizing sameness in all things. —Vivekananda More about this quote Tags: commonality righteousness violence self-defense sameness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have to want to lose your appetite for violence or aggression. And to do that, you have to lose your self-righteousness. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: desire violence aggression self-righteousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. —John Lennon More about this quote Tags: regret violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: power impotence violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. —Katherine Dunn More about this quote Tags: survival violence damage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I’m all for gun control. Sometimes I shake a little; I’ve got to use two hands. —Tom Kearney More about this quote Tags: politics humor guns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. . . . The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: humanity life darkness brutality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email