“People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.” PeopleWantAmericaTalkingViolenceCanada Author:Joseph Boyden
“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.” PeopleWayKindCharacterStoriesDesireCultureFightingEffortRolesFireViolenceObjectsBabyPicksGunFemaleDoctorsAbuseSafetyWoodsViolentTortureRejectsHospitalsGuardianExpertiseFemale CharactersSquatNot PrettyDisenfranchisedObjects Of Desire Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we've had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It's very important to make that differentiation.” PeopleYearsHas BeensImportantBookRealizingResultsNovelViolenceHugeBattleHollywoodComicComic BookSuperheroBreakthroughGraphicGraphic NovelsDifferentiationPerdition Author:Michael Uslan
“We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.” PeopleWorldLoveWarAgeWantedViolenceRedErasBirthdayNegativityUnrestWords Love Author:Elton John
“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
“I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.” PeopleWantSaidAgeGuyViolenceToolsCommitShyBad GuysImpressionable Author:Ray Stevenson
“I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.” PeopleThinkingWarActionSufferingMoralToo MuchViolenceEmpathyWeightFavorsScalesInnocentCatalystPacifistMoral Action Author:Paul Bloom
“The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.” PeopleThinkingHardLevelsViolenceTerribleDown AndPrisonHorribleVarietyShootingOccupationHumiliationSpectacular Author:Molly Crabapple
“A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.” PeopleIfsSoundViolenceExampleMurderPoliceTypicalForbiddenMurdererHystericalPolice Violence Author:Molly Crabapple
“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
“Leaders of political parties need to keep in contact with the people; that's what it's all about. If violence were to erupt, I am fairly confident that we could control our people. Whether or not the authorities can control theirs is another matter altogether.” PeopleIfsNeedsMatterPoliticalPartyLeaderViolenceAuthorityContactPolitical Parties Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“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
“As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHumansImportantStoriesLevelsDealsLaughingViolenceCallingConsequenceCarefulSensitiveFilmmakerBe CarefulCensorshipMaking People Laugh Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it for everyone then people would result to violence in order to get it. Therefore we have to improve the conditions to have better human beings.” PeopleIfsHumansEnoughOrderHuman BeingsResultsViolenceAirConditionsAccessOxygen Author:Shirin Ebadi
“I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveViolenceRight Now Author:Marianne Williamson
“In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.” PeopleIfsAmericaVoiceTalkingViolenceCivilizationArgumentRaisedWesternHopefullyBritainWestern CivilizationPeople Talking Author:John Gimlette
“If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.” PeopleIfsCountryWould BeViolenceArgumentShoutingMorocco Author:John Gimlette
“In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.” PeopleKindDifferentHateViolenceNew YorkHatredDifferent KindsUncommon Author:Fran Lebowitz
“If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of.” PeopleIfsWorldStillsBookStuffViolenceStreetsFrontsMurderIncrediblesHorribleBurningSeatsRenaissance Author:Juan Enriquez
“The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.” PeopleWorldShouldLawWinningViolenceCitizensGunFilledCriminalsDecentGun ControlAbidingRight To Bear ArmsGun ViolenceBearing ArmsPro GunFounding Fathers GunAnti GunLaw Abiding CitizenGun LawPro Gun ControlShooting GunsCarrying GunsAbiding Love Author:James Earl Jones
“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
“The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.” PeopleGivenAnswersClearViolenceRiskPositionMeetingsChicagoMechanismConferences Author:Roger Lewin
“I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.” PeopleThinkingProblemMightLawAnswersViolenceOrdinaryConscienceSolveVideoContemporaryCartoonOrdinary PeopleRight Answers Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMightInterestingViolenceConcepts Author:Chuck Klosterman
“The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.” PeopleReasonCommunityViolenceDangerousFootballIntellectualArguingPhysicality Author:Chuck Klosterman
“As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain disorder], they're obviously going to say "We don't want this to be a part of culture." And they overlook the fact that there's a huge swath of the populace where physicality is still a real common thing.” PeopleWantStillsRealFactsCultureLevelsCommonBrainViolenceHugeInvolvedConsequenceDisorderPhysicalityCommon Things Author:Chuck Klosterman
“All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.” PeopleWayWantHas BeensBookSoulCountryStatesBlackCommunityViolenceInvolvedPeriodsVoteClintonSouthCastsI RealizedSpokesGangJerseyLatinoRidersNew JerseyOrganizerCaucusSacramentoNewarkGang Violence Author:Tom Hayden
“Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.” PeopleWellsIssuesViolenceStructureIll Author:Ian MacKaye
“I'm no reporter. That's for the man with a suit and tie. I'm just relating to my people the best way I know, bringing them what they know and what they see out on the streets. I'm bringing it to them in a musical way, through a way of partying rather than violence. Now they can party their way through their problems.” PeopleKnowsMenWayProblemPartyViolenceStreetsHe ManMusicalBest WaySuitsTiesReportersSuits And Ties Author:Snoop Dogg
“People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.” PeopleHouseLosesViolenceStreetsJail Author:Snoop Dogg
“We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.” PeopleShouldWould BeLeaderViolenceJudgingSucceedResponsibleTerrorPalestinian Author:Colin Powell
“I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.” PeopleThinkingYearsShowsHandsSufferingParentViolenceChildhoodMastersTvsAbuseSeedsMagazinesStemTv ShowsPubertySadisticArousalFormative Years Author:Park Dietz
“Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.” PeopleKnowsKidsPainYoungViolenceColorEuropeBarriersChicagoTurmoilHaitiAtlanta Author:Common
“When I'm talking about a developing world, I also look at clean-water access - women who are more vulnerable to sexual violence when they're fetching water. And talking about what we have going on here, with our carbon footprints and our emissions, is just as important to me as figuring out how to provide clean water to people who need it in regions around the world.” PeopleWorldNeedsLooksImportantWaterTalkingViolenceCleanAccessVulnerableAround The WorldDevelopingRegionsCarbonEmissionsFootprintClean WaterCarbon Footprint Author:Sophia Bush
“As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.” PeopleKnowsWantChildrenSeemsParentViolenceHorribleMy ChildrenCandy Author:Sinead O'Connor
“I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing the Democratic Party to refuse to recognize the all-white Mississippi delegation, because obviously there was no way Mississippi could have an all-white delegation. Black people had been kept from registering through violence and intimidation. She had experienced that violence herself and was there to speak about it and to insist the delegation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party be recognized instead.” PeopleWorldWaySpeakBlackWhitePartyViolenceDemocraticRefuseAwakeSpokesBlack PeopleInfantDemocratic PartyMississippiIntimidationDelegationBarley Author:Leah D. Daughtry
“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenYoungLostParentBlackCommunityWhitePoorAttentionTalkingViolenceParticularGunPaidSlaveryCampaignsVulnerableBlack PeopleAdulthoodDisabledCrusadesGun ViolenceLynchingBlack Community Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsShouldMeanBookDoneShowsViolenceEconomicCategoriesBlueprintsReproductive HealthEconomic Equality Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.” PeopleYearsBelieveHas BeensHardStatesWould BeClassFocusViolenceNew YorkCostLateAdultsBillsPrisonAverageFolksMeaningfulPunishmentCaliforniaPreventionRehabilitationHard To BelieveNew York State Author:James Fox
“I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.” PeopleIfsViolenceChineseDesperatePrisonerResortsTibet Author:Dalai Lama
“This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.” PeopleIdeasAmericaVisionViolenceChaosCollapseVerge Author:Barack Obama
“There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated graphics or photography or sound systems, just keep getting better and better until there is little difference between an animal-based protein and a plant-based one, or farm-produced versus cultured meat. That will make it easy for people to make the kinds of choices that will usher in a world with far less violence.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesHardChoicesEasySoundDifferencesPerfectAnimalViolenceProductsComputerPhotographyPlantSeekingAlternativesMeatGet BetterEggsFarmsMilkVersusProteinInnovatorsSound Systems Author:Wayne Pacelle
“I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too much violence in the beginning, it gets to a point where you don't feel it.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsUseToo MuchViolenceNumbViolence In Movies Author:Fede Alvarez
“Nobody was talking about illegal immigration when Donald Trump entered this campaign. He was attacked from day one for putting the whole issue of the violence that is derived from certain individuals that come into this country illegally on the table. . . He is hearing from all sides. But I promise you, he is a decisive leader. He will stand on the principles that have underpinned his commitment to end illegal immigration in this country. And that's what people will learn more about in the days ahead.” PeopleEndsCountryWholeCertainIndividualSidesTalkingLeaderPrinciplesIssuesViolenceTrumpPromiseCommitmentTablesHearingCampaignsImmigrationIllegalI PromiseIllegal Immigration Author:Mike Pence
“I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the threat of crime, who don't have the opportunity that others have because the schools in our urban areas are a dreaded failure, because of the positions that Hillary Clinton has taken and the people who support her, that I think any candidate should speak out to say that that type of thing is unacceptable.” PeopleThinkingShouldSchoolOpportunitySpeakSupportTakenViolenceCrimePositionTypeAreasThreatClintonFolksPopulationCandidatesUrbanSpeaks OutUrban Areas Author:Chris Christie
“If we would end the war on drugs, you would see the end of the militarization of our police forces and you would see an end to a lot of the shooting violence that's going on when people are being pulled over for traffic stops and then suddenly executed right in the street.” PeopleIfsWarEndsForceViolenceStreetsDrugPoliceShootingTrafficWar On DrugsPolice Force Author:Jesse Ventura
“...I realized how naive I was. My aunt Tina was right: this stuff does exist, and it does hurt people, and although there are lots of people at Liberty who condemn violence against gays-including Dr. Falwell himself-the number of students who want to give them the Goliath treatment isn't zero. In fact, the number who live in my room isn't zero.” PeopleGivingHurtLibertyViolenceStudentsI RealizedAunt Author:Kevin Roose
“I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this part is not hype. After a while particularly in the case of Sybrina Fulton, they've become celebrities and people forget that they've become celebrities because of the death, the murder of their child. So I wanted people to see the burning desire for these women to live their child's legacy, to not let their child have died in vain, so they're fighting to stop the violence.” PeopleChildrenShowsWantedMotherDesireFightingCoursesForgetCasesFiveViolenceMovementMurderDiedBurningLegacyVainSatHypeBurning Desire Author:Ed Gordon
“Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.” PeopleThinkingStillsSexViolenceHugeGunUncomfortableShockingGun ViolenceBlockbuster Author:Morgan Saylor
“At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels will continue to pursue their agenda by legal means and not through violence.” PeopleThinkingMeanIdeasMomentsViolencePursueAgendasRebelOld FashionedMarxist Author:Juan Manuel Santos