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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.
Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.
I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.
I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we dont deal with the causes we will never be safe.
When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there, what's he doing?
Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.
The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.
So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.
We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.
Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.
The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.