#violence

Violence is the first refuge of the violent. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#refuge #violence #violent

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. ↗

— Tori Amos

#crawl #each #knees #make #other

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. ↗

— Malcolm X

#american #avoid #black #continue #i

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#becomes #dreams #everything #fantasies #our dreams

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#day #israel #let us #live #ministers

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence. ↗

— Kate Adie

#attracted #been #i #kind #never

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#hooked #passion #pleasure #soft #tender

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#keep #mind #violence #where

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#allowed #became #because #charter #conflict