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«I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.»
«In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.»
«If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.»
Author: Malcolm X
| About:
African American,
America and Americans,
Violence
| Keywords:
abroad, babies, black people, Black woman, defend, defending, defense, draft, drafted, drafting, drafts, In America, right here, The Draft, violent
«Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Intelligence,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
courageously, Great Spirit, hereditary, honestly, intelligence, latter, opposition, oppositions, prejudices, spirits, submit, submitting, thoughtlessly, uses, violent
«I don't suppose there's any public figure that's ever been subject to any more violent personal attacks than I have.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
attacks, figure, public figure, subject to, suppose, violent
«If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bills, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, commit, definition, enable, innocent, peaceable, revolution, shed, tax, The State, this year, violent
«However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
admire, causes, however, methods, motives, noblest, opponent, serve, serve up, serve well, sympathise, this method, uncompromising, violent, Worthies, worthiest, worthy
«Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
injures, injuring, mental, non, non violent, not yet, otherwise, potency, violence, violent
«It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
cloak, cloaked, cloaking, cover, impotence, nonviolence, put on, violent
«If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you shake him, he bites.»
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