#violence

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#broke #consideration #elemental #leading #means

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#back #cannot #does #films #influence

Non-violence is the article of faith. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#faith #non-violence

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#know #many #more #only #she

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering. ↗

— Gwen John

#passionate #reserved #secretive #suffering #violence

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#effect #gives #instead #male #multicultural

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#am #i #myself #nonviolent #only

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know. ↗

— William H. Macy

#i #know #operatic #started #violence

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #attack #been #conduct #down

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #francione #inspirational-quotes