#violence

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#assassination #could #him #king #pay

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. ↗

— Mike Norton

#buddha #buddha-nature #buddhism #capitalism #communism

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen. ↗

— Linda Vester

#challenges #faith #happen #i #kind

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society. ↗

— Luke Ford

#because #good #had #horror #horror movies

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death #forcing #others #people #some

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen. ↗

— Alexander Walker

#emphasis #enormous #happen #i #i think

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. ↗

— Alice Walker

#children #earlier #i #i believe #much

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ↗

— Alice Walker

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