#violence

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. ↗

— Lance Loud

#believe #culture #gauge #gay #homophobic

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ↗

— Lucretius

#falling #hole #make #oft #rain

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. ↗

— Bill Maher

#american movie #based #book #comic #comic book

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. ↗

— Malcolm X

#defense #even #i #intelligence #self

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#because #felt #i #part #people

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. ↗

— Willie Mays

#also #baseball #business #combat #disguised

In violence, we forget who we are. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#violence #who

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#frequency #high #home #know #those

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

#age #become #beings #committing #embarrassing

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#act #against #been #dent #go