“My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.” AmericaTermCommunityEffortViolenceCrimeBuildingPartnershipEarnest Author:Janet Reno
“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.” LongFormForceTermViolenceAcceptanceLong TermStrongestDominantConsentDominationMaintenance Author:Robert Frost
“From a magical point of view, the term 'nonviolence' doesn't work well. Every beginning Witch learns that you can't cast a spell for what you don't want - that the deep aspects of our minds are unclear on the concept of 'no.' If you tell your dog, 'Rover, I can't take you for a walk,' Rover hears 'Walk!' and runs for the door. If we say 'nonviolence,' we are still thinking in terms of violence.” IfsThinkingWantMindWellsStillsI CanRunningTermWalksViewsViolenceDoorsDogConceptsAspectCastsPoint Of ViewWitchSpellsNonviolenceUnclear Author:Starhawk
“just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.” MenFirstsLastsFilmEasyTermAudienceViolenceHe ManCapableMediumsDramaticPrimitiveRefugeVulgarResortsIncompetentObscenityInarticulate Book:The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde Source: The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde
“The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.” WantDoeTwoRealUseHandsTermViolenceDisciplineChaosTerrorismConfusionBombsEtcConceptionDisorderThrowingRegulationAssociatesAnarchismAnarchistReluctance Author:Howard Zinn
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.” ThinkingMayActionHateEnergyTermViolenceHeroConceptsStonesContraryReactionsCrueltyRanSpiteTwinsNihilismIndicationDeanVelvetExteriorUnderstand MeVehementAntiheroesWild OneNobody Understands Me Author:Lester Bangs
“There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.” PeopleLifeLongHelpingStoriesEyeLostTermIssuesViolenceGunLong TermGun ViolencePersonal Issues Author:Chris Murphy
“I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.” WorldYearsFirstsMeanHas BeensMadePurposeJesusTermWorryViolenceMilitaryNewsPropagandaFollowersGood NewsSubversiveInsistingNo WorriesSacrificial Love Author:Rob Bell
“One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.” IfsNeedsHumansHas BeensTermViolenceCenturyMadnessTwentieth CenturyClimax Author:Eckhart Tolle
“People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one” PeopleWorldBelieveCountryHomeNextSpeakTermSunViolenceRoundsJustifyDividesRighteousSpinning Author:Jackson Browne
“People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.” PeopleStillsStrongTermViolenceActivityResponseNumb Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.” SpeakTermRaceViolencePolicePrivilegeConsideringNypd Author:Cecily McMillan
“I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and violence that we were prey to and involved in to some extent in those days.” ThinkingFightingTermViolenceBecomingInvolvedContradictionPrey Author:Surya Das
“The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.” IfsWholeProblemHumanityTermCommunityViolenceConflictMarchTribes Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don't use the term black-on-black violence, since I've never heard the term white-on-white violence.” UseRunningBlackPresidentTermWhiteViolenceHeardPreparedBarackChicagoMayorsPresident Barack ObamaEmmanuel Author:Julianne Malveaux
“Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which Iran could control, which Russia could control, which Syria could control, and which we and our coalition friends could control - if one man would merely make it known to the world that he doesn't have to be part of the long-term future; he'll help manage Syria out of this mess and then go off into the sunset, as most people do after a period of public life. If he were to do that, then you could stop the violence and quickly move to management.” PeopleIfsMenWorldLongEndsHelpingMovingTermKnownViolencePeriodsLet MeManagementRussiaManageMessLong TermSunsetIranOne ManSyriaPublic LifeCoalitionsCeasefire Author:John F. Kerry
“It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use altogether, as it is likely to be twisted in public discourse to demonise the enemies of the established order, while exempting state violence from legal and moral scrutiny.” MayStatesUseOrderTermMoralEnemyViolenceTerrorismIdeologyDiscourseTwistedAmbiguityScrutinyPublic Discourse Author:Richard A. Falk