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To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence. -- Nhat Hanh
So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. -- Fritz Lang
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. -- June Jordan
Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world. -- Rudy Giuliani
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty. -- George W. Romney
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.' -- Michelle Bachelet
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence? -- Jerome Cavanagh
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. -- Indira Gandhi
We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London. -- Michael Todd
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.' -- Patton Oswalt
We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability. -- Chris Smith
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor. -- Giordano Bruno
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with. -- Ayelet Waldman
For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence? -- Javier Camara
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it. -- Dan Rather
Fear, she's the mother of violence. -- Peter Gabriel
Violence is the instinctive response to fear. -- Margaret Millar
Violence is the fear to other's ideals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All fear violence, all are afraid of death. -- Gautama Buddha
Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger. -- Veronica Rossi
Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could. -- Nenia Campbell
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation. -- Averroes
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state. -- Robert Lacey
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech. -- Alan Dershowitz
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence. -- Dalai Lama
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. -- Jim Morrison
Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence. -- Dalai Lama
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill. -- Gautama Buddha
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm. -- Robert Penn Warren
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? -- Gautama Buddha
The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families. -- Jane Goodall
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle. -- Christiane Northrup
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness. -- Deepak Chopra
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg

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