“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.” ThinkingTodayLastsFormReligionForceBehindsStruggleViolenceCenturyOffersRootsThreatDrivingTerroristRedemptionCommunismEngagedFollowersFundamentalismNaziStrainTotalitarianismIdeologicalIsmsDriving ForceIslamists Author:David Cameron
“Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.” ThinkingWaySexHealingTeachViolenceOffersMathCoreMapsCrucialParts Of LifeRoad Maps Author:Eve Ensler
“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.” IfsMenHeartDoeWholeEnjoyCasesViolenceTypeReturnCitizensOffersGunAgreeFellowsInterviewsEndeavorEarnestBleedingBegetsBleeding Heart Author:Jeff Cooper
“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.” GivingYearsFactsStoriesLightFacesHumanityOrderStrongDarkFictionNovelViolenceWrittenBloodCrimeColdTerribleOffersQuietBraveBrilliantCaptureKillersHeroinesSerialsLight UpAftermathFusionSerial KillerDark PlacesDellBrave WomenFact And Fiction Author:Stephen King
“Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.” ChildrenPlayUseProblemFormReadingAnswersTeachViolenceTelevisionMaterialsProductsBlessingOffersBenefitsSellsConstantExtraordinaryEntertainmentEducationalMediumsDaily LifeInteractionConsumptionTechnologicalViewersStimulationAmerican SocietyGreat EducationalEnrichmentTechnological ChangeAnswers To Life Author:Kenneth Keniston
“If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.” IfsMayForceWishViolenceAchieveOffersNonviolence Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how that has produced a set of reforms that fail to actually transform material conditions of white supremacy. These critiques redirect our attention to the conditions we aim to transform.” StatesLawCertainWhiteRaceAttentionViolenceFailingConditionsMaterialsTheoryOffersAimStrategyCriticalReformOperationsWhite SupremacyCritiqueSupremacy Author:Dean Spade
“In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.” StatesActionOrderCoursesViolenceOffersWeakInternationalBlowProtectionStrikesChosenRegimesAtrocitiesPredatoryKosovo Author:Noam Chomsky
“We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.” PeopleMenNeedsWellsSchoolYoungClassViolenceGroupsOffersConstitutionCurrentsGenderAlternativesYoung ManIslamicImmigrantsRefugeeEnlighteningGender EqualityProactiveSharia Author:Alice Schwarzer