#violence

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

#me #saved #sin #violence #writing

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#caught #hat #heart #measure #poet

Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#become #believe #both #change #come

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests. ↗

— Stephen Hadley

#bit #concluded #diminishing #further #i

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#aphrodisiac #me #violence

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#education #effects #expression #get #hope

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. ↗

— Heraclitus

#fire #more #quenched #than #violence

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#aggression #been #biological #biological weapons #case

The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#another #because #believe #compensation #consider