“My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.” PhilosophyViolenceSubjectsResorts Author:Takeshi Kitano
“There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.” PeopleTakenViolenceDrugAnd LoveCharityGreedRisingUnclesParallelsTranslations1960sHope And LoveFaith HopeFaith Hope And LoveFaith Hope And Charity Author:Alveda King
“Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.” HeartImportantRealViolenceTongueFistsRefrain Author:Alveda King
“The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.” PeopleLongAcceptingForeverViolenceBoundsIngredientsPalestinianUprising Author:Amira Hass
“Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for centuries, by the Mughals, the Russians, their own people, so they have always had to fight for freedom... we cannot take away the context. But they legitimised it by using jihad, a religious sanction, so they could be seen as mujahids, fighting for Allah. And you cannot say there is nothing concrete.” PeopleFightingReligiousViolenceCenturyGunHistoricalDuesLegacyConcreteSanctionsSuppressionDeprivationJihadFighting For Freedom Author:Asghar Ali Engineer
“Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.” WorldFactsHomeTodayViolenceSecurityIgnoranceDependsConnectionsClaimsProsperityAccessInstanceNovelistsBritainExploitationPrevailingDickensEpistemologyManifold Author:Pankaj Mishra
“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 take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.” WayViolenceParadiseShifting Author:David Graeber
“I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator.” PeopleMenFightingBlackWhiteViolenceTroubleLove YouDaughterToiletsOur DaughterYour DaughterRestroom Author:Muhammad Ali
“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.” WellsAmericaCultureViolenceBloodIdentityBuildingNativeGenocideRelativeAshesAncestryPunWreckagePersonal IdentityNexus Author:Anne Waldman
“America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.” WorldDreamAmericaFormCitiesViolenceLandPlanetsJazzMusicalMessBombsContradictionTemplesMediocrityNew WorldCopSophisticatedVersusIndigenousFascinationHandgunsWeaponryConundrumsEtcetera Author:Anne Waldman
“The violence stems from injustice, because people feel they have been treated unfairly in the Middle East, whether that means military occupation, starvation under U.N. sanctions, whether it means that they have a dictatorship imposed on them, propped up by the West. This is why people turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.” PeopleMeanViolenceMilitaryInjusticeDictatorshipStem Author:Robert Fisk
“The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans and Asians on their part are increasingly closing their doors too and resentment at both sides is increasing. This trend can be dangerous. It can lead, sooner or later, to violence - even in this country, which is traditionally an opponent of violence.” CountryViolenceDangerousResentment Author:Norbert Elias
“I denounced Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric. And he knows exactly what he's doing. This is not the Donald Trump who denounced David Duke in 1991. This is a guy who's now soaking up this hate and his spilling it back out.” KindGuyHateViolenceRhetoric Author:Donna Brazile
“Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.” ThinkingTryingPoliticalViolenceUtilityGin Author:Donna Brazile
“Obviously, there are political operatives that are playing a role. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be denounced. All candidates should say, we want to have - be able to have nonviolent, peaceful speaking events. Do not hurt people, do not hit. Do not break the law, no one is encouraging violence. That's what should be stated very clearly. Denounce any violence that occurs. Be honest to say exactly also, what is behind this. They are trying to elicit and produce a specific response to try to discredit and to paint Donald Trump in a particular light. That is - that's what's happening.” PeopleTryingMeanPoliticalHurtBreakViolenceHonestResponsePaintPeacefulBeing HonestDiscredit Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people together, but then that becomes a problem. There are parallels here, to American cities, which, in the '80s, with massive rural to urban migration, saw incredible amounts of violence.” PeopleTryingProblemTogetherPoliticalPartyViolenceIncrediblesUrbanPolitical Parties Author:Steve Inskeep
“Sometimes you want to have a talk about race, about police violence. It's very hard to get through to somebody. Everyone's got their side staked out. They don't want to talk about it. But you can break the ice with a little humor.” SometimesBreakViolencePolice Author:Colton Dunn
“Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then to ignore the violence and create a gentler world in our fiction, or to heighten the violence through the use of point-of-view in order to explore it and gain some insight and understanding. Since I'm living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it's kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it.” WorldWritingKindUnderstandingBrainViolenceTroubleInsightNeighborFind Me Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that we should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.” WorldMeanRealizingStruggleViolenceThreatGenderArguingHarassment Author:Judith Butler
“Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.” PeopleWorldEyeCareResponsibilityViolenceSuicideIslamIslamicKidnapping Author:John F. Kerry
“Americans across our country are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty and of fear. These feelings are understandable and they are justified. But the answer must not be violence. The answer is never violence. Rather, the answer - our answer, all our answer - must be action. Calm, peaceful, collaborative and determined action. We must continue working to build trust between communities and law enforcement. We must continue working to guarantee every person in this country equal justice under the law.” CountryFeelingsActionCommunityJusticeViolenceEqualCalmDeterminedPeacefulUncertaintyLaw EnforcementJustifiedHelplessness Author:Loretta Lynch
“Those who seek to improve our country through peaceful protest and protected speech, I want you to know that your voice is important. Do not be discouraged by those who use your lawful actions as a cover for their heinous violence. We will continue to safeguard your constitutional rights and to work with you in the difficult mission of building a better nation and a brighter future.” ImportantCountryActionDifficultViolenceBuildingPeacefulProtestI Want YouDiscouraged Author:Loretta Lynch
“I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.” KindViolence Author:Jonathan Raymond
“Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and reconsider. To feel the integrity and generosity of words, but also their disruptive violence and volatility. To even begin to do them justice requires a radical letting go and stringent attention. I was interested in following that impulse toward liberty.” WritingMindJusticeAttentionLibertyViolenceIntegrityLetting GoRadicalGenerosityImpulseAshamed Author:Laurie Sheck
“The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.” TodayViolenceSexualityExhilarating Author:Pierce Brosnan
“There's no way of preventing the media from covering attacks as huge events and until the media stops doing that, they will be huge in people's consciousness, and we have to treat these things differently from the smaller random acts of violence.” ConsciousnessViolence Author:Karan Mahajan
“terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse. It's not like stealing from someone's house, or even assassinating someone. There are very complex ideological reasons behind these almost abstract acts of violence.” KindReasonHouseInterestingViolenceCrimeTerrorismDrivenStealingImpulseAbstractIdeological Author:Karan Mahajan
“I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and to be good but pornography exerts a strong force on you, and one way to get further away from it would be to immerse yourself in a strong religious system.” ThinkingTryingStrongReligiousSituationViolenceBe GoodPornography Author:Karan Mahajan
“We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.” WorldWarCountryViolenceDangerous Author:Jodie Evans
“We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.” ViolenceHonestOppressionPersistenceSexismPatriarchy Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again.” ViolenceIdeology Author:Deepak Chopra
“The violence that has been going on incessantly in our community, getting worse and worse by the day, when we are slaughtering ourselves in unprecedented numbers; filled with self-hatred for each other in a spirit of retaliation and revenge. You kill my dog, I'll kill your cat, as though there are no consequences for this behavior, I have warned us about for the last three, nearly four decades telling our people we're going to have to pay a price for this.” PeopleSpiritCommunityViolenceDogBehaviorConsequenceCatRevengeMy DogIncessantlyRetaliation Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Donald Trump has brought into his cabinet James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who is Secretary of Defense. A "mad dog" is a dangerous creature. And to think of sending such a man with such a reputation into Chicago after he, President Trump, has said to our mayor and the police department: "You all better get this violence thing straight or we'll have to help you do it." They're intending to come and search homes for weapons and kill those who would advance opposition, a slaughter.” ThinkingMenHelpingHomePresidentViolenceDogDangerousPoliceMadReputationSecretary Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I certainly don't think Donald Trump suggesting violence in any way.” ThinkingViolence Author:Gwen Ifill
“The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.” WorldMindSufferingSimpleViolenceWillingnessOpen Mind Author:Byron Katie
“One even tries to figure out why Donald Trump is so admiring of a leader who has cracked down on journalists and is suspected of using even violence, cracked down on civil society, ruling with an iron fist within Russia. To look with admiration on that sort of domestic leadership, I think is just really inconsistent with American values.” ThinkingTryingValuesLeaderViolenceJournalistAdmirationCivil SocietyInconsistentAdmiringAmerican Values Author:Philip Gordon
“I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?” KindArtCultureEmotionViolenceGunMurderExcellencePop CultureTarantino Author:Jeff Buckley
“I think as we look at this problem of ISIS, it's more than just an army. It's also a fight about ideas. And we have got to dry up their recruiting. We have got to dry up their fundraising. The way we intend to do it is to humiliate them, to divorce them from any nation giving them protection, and humiliating their message of hatred, of violence. Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. They have - they cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity.” ThinkingGivingChildrenProblemFightingReligiousViolenceDignityHatredArmyDivorceProtectionHumiliatingHumiliate Author:James Mattis
“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
“The priorities for the new Palestinian government is the economy. If Hamas cannot pay salaries when they form the government, there will be a collapse. People cannot afford to have that happen; there is nothing for people to fall back on. If people go hungry, there will be chaos - not just instability, but a breakdown. And there will be violence with a spillover effect. This is crucial to understand.” PeopleFallEconomyViolenceChaosPrioritiesHungryPalestinianBreakdownFall BackInstabilityHamas Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.” PoliticalCommunityViolenceAbsenceIdeologyHamas Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.” PeopleLongStillsAmericaBlackViolenceGayDiversityOvercomingDiscriminationAsianHispanic Author:Ron Kind
“I do fear that global capitalism is making us more like each other in regrettable ways, e.g., more people are increasingly captivated by spectacles of violence and aggression or of conspicuous consumption that are the subjects of the most commercially viable films across countries precisely because they don't depend for their appeal on cultural fine points; and more people are prone to deal with others on a purely instrumental and impersonal basis.” PeopleCountryFilmViolenceCapitalismAggressionSpectacles Author:David Wong
“There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.” ViolenceLazy Author:Karyn Kusama
“I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has to be thoughtful and mature about how you depict it and how you think it through. You have to think about the effects that violence has on audiences, and it's deployed so casually that I think it's losing its meaning. And when things like violence and murder and the dehumanization of other people lose their meaning, then we're really kind of in a place where we have to reexamine and take a hard look at ourselves.” PeopleThinkingKindAudienceViolenceLosingMurderPropertyThoughtfulMatureDehumanization Author:Karyn Kusama
“And in the wake of Trump's elections, there have been reports across the country of intimidation, harassment and violence against those very groups. So if Trump is serious about unifying the country, if this is a thing he wants to do, then I think he needs to immediately speak against these acts of intimidation, harassment and violence that are happening to some degree in the name of the campaign that he ran.” ThinkingCountrySpeakViolenceSeriousElectionRanHarassmentIntimidation Author:Newt Gingrich
“This is not violence, this is legitimate resistance. This is our people's right to resist Israeli occupation.” ViolenceIsraeli Author:Khaled Mashal
“There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.” DifficultChallengesViolenceConflictTerroristAfghanistanTaliban Author:Jens Stoltenberg
“We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” PeopleThinkingRememberHumanityChristViolenceTerribleUniqueHorseIslamTerrorCommittedBetray Author:Barack Obama