“Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.” PeopleMenWorldGivingMindBelieveBookSoulEarthBeautifulLawSufferingWaterNatureChanceViolenceTreeFlowerRainUniversalMadDefeatCloudsMeaningfulCrueltySensibleSooner Or LaterAbsurdityConvincingLaws Of NatureFoliage Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.” ChanceViolenceBirthViolentRebirth Author:Nick Nolte
“What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?” IfsLittlesDoeWarMatterChanceViolenceBloodIntoleranceDoes It Matter Author:Jean Racine
“In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.” PeopleIfsSelfTogetherPurposeFightingBlackChanceWhiteOpinionBreakViolenceCrimeCapableResistanceBlack PeopleSoleAmerican HistoryBreak OutLynchingFighting BackHeinous Crimes Author:Assata Shakur
“Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.” IfsKnowsWellsChanceRightsViolenceProtectAbuseInjusticeEducatedSecureWell Educated Author:Laura Bush
“The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.” AmericaChanceViolenceSeaCenturyParticularOvercomingMiseryLuxuryFormerIslandsLatinSurvivedInterventionLatin AmericaColonyDependencySubjugation Author:Noam Chomsky
“War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.” WarReasonChanceViolenceTrinity Author:Carl von Clausewitz
“Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy, even though NOT supporting me means you are supporting violence since millions of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters who would have had a chance to see my speeches, essays or advertisements continue along their violent paths unchallenged.” MeanSelfPhilosophyChanceMillionsPathViolenceSpeechViolentMeatEggsHoneySupporterEssaysAdvertisementsPacifistDairyOutspokenSelf Indulgent Author:Gary Yourofsky
“The problem in Syria, I think, is that when there is so much violence, there is not only very little chance to create spaces for liberation, but also all talk is quickly swallowed up by it. People are trying to keep their heads down because they are being bombarded all the time.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesProblemChanceSpaceViolenceLiberationSyriaBombarded Author:Nigel Gibson