I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. —Jack Handey More about this quote Tags: hate humor violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city. —P.D. James More about this quote Tags: death nature violence 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
War is murder writ large. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: war violence murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: violence competence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. —George Will More about this quote Tags: USA football sports violence committees meetings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email