“Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.” MillionsViolenceKingsTwentiesOneselfSecureExposedMonarchs Book:Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition) Source: Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)
“What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.” PeopleIfsYearsDiesNumbersPovertyMillionsViolenceHungerStarvationHunger And Poverty Author:Tom Morello
“In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.” BelieveSometimesHumorKidsAmericaPoliticalCultureSexWaitingNumbersPracticeMillionsViolenceProgramInnocenceSpitePregnancyBelieve In GodTeensVolunteerSignalsLarge NumbersPopular CulturePolitical HumorTeen PregnancyVolunteer Work Author:George W. Bush
“Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways - literal, symbolic, you name it - that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence.” WayHumansNamesEmotionMillionsViolenceJourneyFiguresCapacityRageSymbolicLiteralHipsterHuman EmotionsJung Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.” PeopleWorldPersonsUnitedMoralMillionsViolenceProudPoliceResistanceInnocentPeacefulProtestJustificationInheritanceDisgracePolice BrutalityBrutalityEludeDishonorActs Of ViolenceNonviolent ResistancePeaceful ProtestInnocent Person Author:Benjamin Crump
“How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more.” LyingDealsNumbersBehindsMillionsSupportViolenceGroupsIdeologyIsisFanaticsExtremistActs Of Violence Author:Tony Blair
“It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.” PeopleWantGivingProblemViewsMillionsViolenceShareExtremesViolentWorldview Author:Tony Blair
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“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