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
Each of us, we humans, if we are to look our own kind in the eye, should at least be willing to say we’re sorry, that all over our smaller and more lethal planet, whatever the causes, we’re still killing our own kind — the same but different, but our own kind nonetheless. —Thomas Lynch More about this quote Tags: war apology compromise death killing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. —Pierre Bayle More about this quote Tags: history weakness fiction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most violent element in society is ignorance. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance society violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the solution to a problem of absolute disagreement extends to a call for bloodshed, then neither party has demonstrated the intelligence to formulate the question properly. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: war wisdom intelligence disagreement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They say, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” But I think the guns help. Just standing there saying, “Bang!” doesn’t really hurt anybody. —Eddie Izzard More about this quote Tags: politics humor guns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. —Horace Mann More about this quote Tags: politics opinion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. —Marshall Rosenberg More about this quote Tags: war pain violence insult injury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: intelligence knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: understanding ignorance intelligence knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way. —Terry Goodkind in The Sword of Truth More about this quote Tags: life ease Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are always the same age inside. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email