Best violence & earth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empathy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.”

People Earth America Nations Violence Dangerous Weapons Activism Humiliated

Author:Vincent Harding

“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”

Source: A Fighting Chance

“I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.”

Knows Done Earth Evil Violence Birth

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.”

“We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.”

Earth Nations Four Violence Corners Defense Great Nations

Author:George W. Bush

“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.”

“America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.”

May Children Has Beens Today Earth America Community United States Violence Crime Killing Epidemics

Author:Sissela Bok

“In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.”

World Hard Facts Earth Faces Animal Gone Violence Method Species Ill Warm Defense Monsters Sensitive Prize Shells World History Armor

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.”

World Doe Ends Earth Evil Church Powerful Struggle Fire Violence Mankind Poet Devil Hatred Wings Expected Vain Preacher Repent End Of The World Lament Evil World

Author:Johan Huizinga

“I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence, racial violence, environmental violence - where we are dominating and not cooperating .”

Thinking Way Looks Earth Violence Economic Environmental Dominating Cooperating

Author:Eve Ensler

“If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.”

Ifs Way Giving God Shows Earth Violence Pure Give Me Instruments Spread Awful Nonviolence Show Me Ruling Hold Me Give Me Strength

Book:Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence

Source: Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence

“That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.”

Earth Faces Religion Nations Violence Injustice Pins Untruth

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.”

Humans Government Earth Force Violence Instinct Resistance Human Thought Personification

Book:Resist Not Evil

Source: Resist Not Evil

“We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.”

Giving Humans Earth Spirit Order Passion Social Common Violence Evolution Amount Limits Giving Up Crossroads Social Order Human Evolution

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.”

People Earth Interesting Violence Century Organized Glorify Illogical Mr Spock

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“The Kingdom suffers violence and the violent take "IT" by force! I believe the Lord is requiring our worship to become more violent. Kingdoms are clashing. We, a people of God, will take the earth by forceful worship. Violent worship overcomes violence in the natural, because the atmosphere around us changes.”

People Believe Earth Suffering Force I Believe Natural Lord Violence Worship Overcoming Violent Gods Will Kingdoms Atmosphere

Author:Chuck Pierce

“If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed out and presented Earthlings with a list of secrets - a simple formula - for making life finally work on this planet without violence, killing, and war, without turmoil, pain, and suffering, without want, lack, and despair, do you think we would be wise to look it over? Even if it contradicted everything we knew to be true or thought to be so?”

“If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.”

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