“If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.” IfsUniversePowerfulAttitudeMeditationViolenceBuddhismPursueHopefulHelpfulBenign Author:Frederick Lenz
“Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.” GivingHumansMeanBookSpeakAttitudeViolenceCommunicationSpeechBrilliantAppropriateNonviolent CommunicationAppropriate Time Author:Arun Manilal Gandhi
“Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence.” ThinkingMindMatterTogetherArtistCultureGirlChangeAttitudeTalkingOur LivesViolenceExampleUniqueCampaignsWhat MattersViolence Against WomenPower To ChangeTogether We Can Author:Barack Obama
“Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.” WayLongHas BeensEffortAttitudeOpinionStruggleViolenceMetsMassiveLong WayRepressionRegressionLong Way To Go Book:Who Rules the World? Source: Who Rules the World?
“During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.” FirstsStillsNationsAttitudeViolenceTablesWavePossessionChairsSuffragists Author:Gloria Steinem
“We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.” WarEnoughProblemForceAttitudeViolenceCrimeDrugRewardsSolveEpidemicsWar On Drugs Author:Peter McWilliams
“I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of "nil paseran" - "none shall pass" - in the face of fascism?” MightFacesAttitudeViolenceConflictPassionateSocialismRejectionFascismExploringReconcilePacifism Author:Hal Duncan
“We must rebuild Colombia, starting with ourselves, our hearts, put resentment aside, put hatred aside, put envy aside. The only thing that those attitudes accomplish is to sow violence and sow death and suffering.” HeartSufferingAttitudeViolenceHatredStartingAccomplishEnvyResentmentColombia Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“Capitalism is like this fractal thing where anything that contains an element of capitalism anywhere inside it is just something that turns into capitalism. It is an incredibly defeatist attitude. If you choose to look at reality that way, I suppose you can, but you have to do enormous violence to reality to do so consistently.” IfsWayLooksRealityTurnsAttitudeViolenceElementsCapitalismEnormousYou ChooseConsistentlyFractals Author:David Graeber
“When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.” SufferingAttitudeSituationViolenceInjusticeVulnerabilityHopelessnessImprisonmentClosure Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“This attitude of how society views women as chattel - that's the biggest thing to overcome. When I first started a stake in the issue of relationship abuse, I got really beat up by the Christian right because I was interfering in what was a personal family affair. It's a "family matter." That's why I wish we'd drop the phrase "domestic violence." It sounds like a domesticated cat. It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.” ChristianWishAttitudeViolenceCrimeCatOvercomingAbuseBlameAffairInterfereDomestic ViolenceChristian Right Author:Joe Biden
“My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.” WorldMeanDoeWarEndsAttitudePovertyViolenceThis WorldNegativeDefinitionsDiscriminationFactorsInequalityReally MeanMy Attitude Author:Aung San Suu Kyi