“If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage” IfsThinkingHas BeensInterestSawsViolenceStageAcceptanceExerciseUniversalConstitutionProtectedContinuingLikelihoodRallying Author:Kofi Annan
“It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.” ChildrenBookSeemsCultureGirlSawsViolencePerceptionReasonableExposedCensorshipRuinedPornographyPopular CultureGood GirlProtecting Children Author:Molly Ivins
“History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.” KindStoriesSawsViolenceGunGainsWorking ItKind Words Author:James Carlos Blake
“I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.” YearsFirstsChildrenEvilSawsGraceViolencePureAdultsThreatProductionsSignificantLakesBalletSwansBackdropJuxtapositionPure EvilSwan Lake Author:Walter Dean Myers
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.” KindPoliticsIndividualSawsViolenceBehaviorDestructionExcuseActivismCriminalsStatementsHandfulNo ExcusesBaltimoreLootingCriminal Behavior Author:Barack Obama
“There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.” SawsViolenceFlowHumanismClassicFascinationRenaissanceModernism Author:John Currin
“I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate light. I was like just watch how many accidents and deaths horror causes. Whereas I don't think anybody is going to go: "Oh, I just saw The Shining and I think I'm going to go axe somebody!" These movies aren't for everybody. The dark side of anything isn't for everybody. I think that you have to have some sort of responsibility in how you portray it because I always want the violence to seem real and if it seems disgusting then good, because it should.” IfsThinkingWantShouldRealLightSeemsCausesSidesDarkResponsibilityWatchesSawsViolenceHorrorShiningAccidentsAppropriateDisgustingDark Side Author:Rob Zombie
“When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.” HumorFunnyFacesSawsViolenceFingersKnivesRealisedWristsPubs Author:Noel Fielding
“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.” WayWantWritingSaidStoriesWantedFilmGamesSportsClearSawsViolenceFootballDramaOne DaySolutionsCamerasScriptsFinishedViolentHeySiblingRivalrySibling RivalrySports MovieFunny GameViolent Films Author:Carlos Cuaron
“When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.” SoulStatesMomentsJoyOrderFeltLordSawsViolenceHabitMy SoulThis DayTendernessFavourEntrances Book:The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself Source: The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself
“My whole life I saw how the violence my father created had come back to my family and I thought that I would only make things worse for my mother and my sister if I sought to avenge my father. I had to dare to take a path of peace.” IfsWholeMotherFatherPathSawsViolenceMy FamilyDareWhole LifeMy Sister Author:Juan Pablo Escobar