#violence

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence. ↗

— Vano Merabishvili

#does #exclude #give #give me #liberty

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#dangers #destruction #east #free #harmony

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#every #hurt #only #pain #problems

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence. ↗

— Pervez Musharraf

#enmity #hatred #islam #peace #teaches

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #attack #been #conduct #down

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#grace #perspicacity #violence #writing #age

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind. ↗

— Holly Estil Cunningham

#instinct #philosophy #psychology #violence #art

It’ll turn me into a weapon,’ I say, my voice suddenly loud. ‘All you got to do is curl your hands into fists and you turn into a weapon,’ says Jim. ‘Your body is just another tool. This technology changes nothing; it only amplifies. You decide how to use your tools. Whether to do good or evil. ↗

— Daniel H. Wilson

#human-nature #technology #violence #weapons #change

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? ↗

— P.D. James

#sex #violence #death

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody? ↗

— Sena Jeter Naslund

#life #nonviolence #violence #death