All Quotes

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

With our love, we could save the world.

—George Harrison

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

—Nick Diamos

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

—Mother Teresa

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

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

—George Orwell

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

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

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

—John Lennon

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

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

I’m all for gun control. Sometimes I shake a little; I’ve got to use two hands.

—Tom Kearney