#violence

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

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

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

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#country #democrats #ethnicity #gender #just

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#armed #attempt #group #impose #upon

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#force #military #military force #prospect #such

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#american #apple #apple pie #experience #i