Best violence & humanity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”

World War Humanity Speak Social Poverty Violence Conditions Buddhism Stem Imbalance Social Conditions Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.”

“Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.”

Kind Done Humanity Poverty Violence Profitable

Author:Tom Morello

“Violence diminishes our humanity.”

Humanity Violence Diminish

Author:Coretta Scott King

“Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.”

Soul Body Humanity Violence Wounds Collectives Diminish Prey Predator

Book:Break No Bones: A Novel

Source: Break No Bones: A Novel

“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.”

“In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.”

World Humans Problem Hate Humanity Culture Force Views Race Roles Violence Civilization Mass Hatred Passionate Optimistic Primaries Human Race Primitive Psychosis Great Passion

Author:Stefan Zweig

“The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.”

People Ideas Country Whole Humanity Fighting Violence Degrees Hollywood Bases Complexes Corruption Deny Impulse Tension Conception Tibetan Lama Tibet Dalai

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof foreign cultures. Tourism improves relationships between individualsand peoples; when they are cordial, respectful, and based on solidarity theyconstitute, as it were, an open door to peace and harmonious coexistence”

Wells Suffering Values Humanity Culture Violence Doors Our Time Rejection Rooted Solidarity Respectful Harmonious Tourism Coexistence Foreign Culture

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.”

Humanity Violence Crime Fabric Crimes Against Humanity

Book:Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States

Source: Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States

“With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.”

World Whole Home Spirit Humanity Violence Breaths Foundation Whole World Kingdoms True Friend True Friendship Non Violence Very True True Home

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.”

Men Film Humanity Violence Seeing Subjects He Man Walking Comfortable Red Carpet Red Carpet Penguins Tuxedos

Author:William Hurt

“It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.”

Humanity Religious Violence Obvious Torn

Author:Thomas Keating

“It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.”

Happens Lying Humanity Morning Violence Addiction Graves Selfishness Arrogance Reaching Sunday Dirt Easter Loving Life Sunday Morning Easter Sunday

Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber

“The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.”

Ifs Whole Problem Humanity Term Community Violence Conflict March Tribes

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.”

States Humanity Violence Trouble Benefits

Author:Dalai Lama

“Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.”

Humanity Views Issues Violence Threat Criminals Isis Strategic Nuisance

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“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.”

People Thinking Remember Humanity Christ Violence Terrible Unique Horse Islam Terror Committed Betray

Author:Barack Obama

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

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