“Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.” SpiritualViolenceCrazyIgnoranceIncrediblesContemporaryMaterialismIndulgenceSentimentalityTheismDrive Me Crazy Author:Anne Waldman
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.” ThinkingMenTryingYearsBelieveHumansTwoWholeLastsOrderI BelieveViolenceHavensCreationChangedIgnoranceThousandConsequenceDestructionChaosValuableIdeologyTriumphSpiteThousand YearsGentlenessVendetta Author:Kenneth Clark
“Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.” PeopleHumansPersonsFightingUnderstandingHuman BeingsCompassionEnemyViolenceIgnoranceInjusticeTendenciesExploits Book:Anger Source: Anger
“If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife.” IfsPoliticalSocialPartyWifeViolenceIgnoranceClubsProtestBigotryTiedSheerMisogynyPolitical PartiesMafiaHomophobiaEnablers Author:Bill Maher
“One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.” CountryMatterPovertyRichViolenceOne ThingIgnoranceIntellectualIncrediblesThemeHoneyCivicsAtrocitiesUnspokenGrapplingIntellectual LifeCosmopolitanism Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“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