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“But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.”

Media Solutions Ultimate Myth Violent Popular Song

Author:Stanley Crouch

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”

Lying Night House Dark Darkness Streets Wind Scene Rain London Violent Flames Lamps Occasional Intervals Stormy Stormy Nights

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.”

Author:Louise Mensch

“I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.”

Men Violence Violent

Author:Louis L'Amour

“There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.”

Soul Might Planets Violent

Author:Matt Chandler

“I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.”

People Long Art Violent Bigots Closed Minded Blowhards

Book:I like what I know: a visual autobiography

Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography

“Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.”

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.”

Men Causes Affection Violent Arise Quarrels Familiarity Animosity

Author:Sakya Pandita

“The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.”

Taken Blood Red Violent Meat Vegetarian Vegan Vegetarian Food Red Meat

Author:Ziggy Marley

“For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.”

Believe Hands Earth Belief Speak I Believe Friendship Fate Dying My Friends Criminals Violent Vain Glorious Unborn Pentagon

Book:We Die Before We Live: Talking with the Very Ill

Source: We Die Before We Live: Talking with the Very Ill

“If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.”

Ifs Kind Persons Doe Two War Together Law Marriage Trouble Conflict Blessed Violent All Kinds Bridges Nasty Dominating Possessive Nagging

Author:Rajneesh

“No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.”

People Men Way War Grows Pleasure Half Ordinary Stronger Separation Violent Heat Efficient Behaviour Pie Recipes Machinery Other Half

Author:Alasdair Gray

“It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.”

Seems America Cities Criminals Rings Violent Reluctant Baltimore Convicts Jurors

Author:David Simon

“Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.”

Thinking Talking Extremes Violent Superlatives

Author:Isaac Watts

“The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.”

“When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.”

Feels Passion Compassion Ego Violent Aggressive Within You

Author:Rajneesh

“An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .”

World Love Two Evil Differences Courage Study Position Convinced Violent Resistance Courageous Submission Confrontation Power Of Love Vigor Pacifism Nonviolent Resistance

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.”

Men World I Can Real Today Together Hate Morning Ignorance Angry Ill Violent Thrive Working Together Envious Ungrateful Treacherous Early Morning Hate Him

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.”

Way Humans Play Wanted Values Figures Musician Jazz Violent Loud Making Love Jazz Music Elevation Jazz Musician Connotation Coltrane

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.”

Ideas Play Feelings Lost Roles Produce Losing Violent Backgrounds Disturbance Transmission

Author:Albert Einstein

“Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.”

People Doe Ideas Use Poverty Terrorist Violent Frustration Exploits Breeding

Author:Anna Lindh

“Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.”

Community Known Crime Program Clinton Rate Violent Administration Establishment Cop Violent Crimes Crime Rates

Author:Alan Mollohan

“Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.”

People Ifs Thinking Problem Answers Modern Events Tvs Baby Violent Liberalism Abortion Civilized Destroying Unwanted Obscene Pretence Portraying Anti Abortion Against Abortion Prudishness

Author:Peter Hitchens

“Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.”

Mind Violent Remorse

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.”

Thinking Refuse Violent Horrible Genocide Beaten Stubborn

Author:Lydia Lunch

“Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.”

Ifs Men Soul Eye Remember Form Lost Force Color Shapes Losing Direct Violent Kingdoms Shade Gestures Hollow Paralyzed Hollow Man

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.”

Feelings Problem Force Solutions Threat Violent Statements Inevitable Clash Idaho

Author:Stafford Cripps

“Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.”

“In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.”

Firsts Character Film Five Directors Corners Scary Violent Exposed Scar

Author:John Turturro

“Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .”

Men Has Beens Ends Christian Animal Attitude Christianity Regard Catholic Mere Violent Buddhist Vegetarian Unfortunate Eastern Judaism Remarks Genesis Insensitive Moralist

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.”

People World Kind May Has Beens Helping Reality Age Form Christ Church Risk Tough Violent Admire Peaceful Gentle Faithful Be Kind Cynicism Reborn Being Faithful

Author:John Howard Yoder

“The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.”

Ifs Sometimes Age Artist Nations Creative Environment Produce Workers Theatre Violent Nervous Crafts Working It Disturbed Nervous System Disturbance Creative Work

Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied”

Reason Emotion Violent Satisfied Balanced Irrational Occasional

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in the clinics of Cracow, smallpox vaccination has been followed by violent local and general reactions and by leukemia.”

Wells Children Has Beens Sometimes Produce Adults Cancer Violent Reactions Locals Observation Manifestation Reports Clinic Smallpox Vaccinations Leukemia

Author:Julian Aleksandrowicz

“I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.”

Poor Childhood Violent Household Being Afraid

Author:Patrick Stewart

“Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.”

“In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.”

Fighting Community Cities Crime Models Strategy Violent Tides Threatened Boston Preventing Tidy Violent Crimes Fighting Crime

Author:Thomas Menino

“Through your support of UN peacekeeping, you can help to make this tantalizing word-"peace"-a reality for all the world's citizens. Together, we can spread the message that UN peacekeeping is essential. Without it, the world would be a much less stable, and more violent, place.”

World Helping Reality Would Be Together Support Citizens Essentials Messages Spread Violent Stable Peacekeeping Together We Can Tantalizing

Author:Tim Wirth

“We demand a non-violent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. People have the right to live in a world where the basic needs of all peoples are addressed. No more military attacks. No more war.”

People World Needs Humans War Common Security Military Demand Bases Violent Nonviolence Non Violent Basic Needs

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.”

Kind Facts Seems Courses Rooms Music Instruments Musical Drawing Violent Arise Piano Hotel Employed Exceptional Forlorn

Book:North America

Source: North America

“Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship will become different - totally different. Love will be the basic note of your relationship, not violence. As it is, violence is the basic note. Even if you look at someone, you look in a violent way. But we are accustomed to it.”

Ifs Way Looks Different Remember Faces Meditation Violence Relationship Mirrors Notes Violent Your Face Our Relationship Accustomed

Author:Rajneesh

“Meditation for me is not a children's play, it is a deep transformation. How to know this transformation? It is being reflected every moment in your relationships. Do you try to possess someone? Then you are violent. How can one possess someone? Are you trying to dominate someone? Then you are violent. How can one dominate anyone? Love cannot dominate, love cannot possess.”

Knows Trying Children Play Moments Meditation Relationship Transformation Violent Our Relationship One Love

Author:Rajneesh

“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”

Has Beens Baby Happenings Army Shame Soldier Iraq Violent Vietnam Killers Humiliation American Army

Author:Seymour Hersh

“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”

Men Government Powerful Mouths Vote Violent Bread Innocent Substance Voting Destructive Honorable Extravagant Honorable Man

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.”

Children Home Growth Growing Up Growing Development Aspect Scary Violent Traumatic Experiences

Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.”

Thinking Want Persons Shows Kids Parent Teach Scary Violent Handle Frightening

Author:Gina Philips

“Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way.”

Ifs World Way Want Mean Ends Problem Science Values Technology Progress Very Good Solve Selfish Violent Efficient Technological Greedy Technological Progress

Author:Richard Dawkins

“It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front - sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it's important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we're doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists ... we have to keep doing what we're doing.”