I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. —August Strindberg More about this quote Tags: people dogs courage violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Simone Weil once said, "I would like to achieve the kind of radiance that can bring about nonviolently what other people might have to do violently." And, of course, we see teachers like that. We see parents like that, who have a kind of radiance so that they don't have to raise their voice; they don't have to beat their children. . . . They simply make a different atmosphere. —Sissela Bok More about this quote Tags: change parents nonviolence violence persuasion radiance yelling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a woman gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country — it's a whole other way of thinking. —Elayne Boosler More about this quote Tags: violence food gender Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. —Pearl Bailey More about this quote Tags: hunger learning violence producing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived. —Philip Ó Ceallaigh More about this quote Tags: soul sanity violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hate to advocate drugs, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. —Hunter S. Thompson More about this quote Tags: hate insanity violence drugs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: heroism violence irony heroes Quakers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: war heroism morality music violence patriotism killing murder civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. —Barbara Deming More about this quote Tags: nonviolence violence oppression liberation oppressed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Another plan I have is World Peace through Formal Introductions. The idea is that everyone in the world would be required to meet everyone else in the world, formally, at least once. You'd have to look the person in the eye, shake hands, repeat their name, and try to remember one outstanding physical characteristic. My theory is, if you knew everyone in the world personally, you'd be less inclined to fight them in a war: "Who? The Malaysians? Are you kidding? I know those people! —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: peace violence intimacy familiarity meeting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. —Pentagon official on why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War More about this quote Tags: war politics peace violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nonviolence doesn't always work — but violence never does. —Madge Micheels-Cyrus More about this quote Tags: work nonviolence violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: hate spirit nonviolence violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. —Ed Gardner More about this quote Tags: music violence singing opera Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each drew his sword / On the side of the Lord. —Phyllis McGinley More about this quote Tags: war God violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email