Quotes with non-violence

Quotes 81 till 100 of 243.

  • Bill Vaughan If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Salvatore Satta If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.
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  • Gloria Steinem If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bob Kerrey If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Bill Flores Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • A. J. Muste In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
    Chomsky - American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) p. 160
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • Andrew Young In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Brad Feld In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bell Hooks In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Joseph De Maistre In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Mary McCarthy In violence we forget who we are.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Georges Bataille Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Bob Keeshan It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Seneca It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Oscar Wilde It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Burgess Owens It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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