Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Heroism Violence Patriotism Authenticity Peace Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

Perception Violence Nature Human Behavior When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Anger Danger Violence Near Miss One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.

Freddie Mercury

Power Violence Conflict Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Hannah Arendt

Prejudice Mindset Dehumanization Violence Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Eckhart Tolle

Violence Conflict Consequence Ethics Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Albert Camus

Violence Nonviolence Restraint Ethics Conflict The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Theodore Roosevelt

Gun Control Safety Violence Guns are bad, I tell you.

Eminem

Governance Violence Morality So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

Violence Prevention Peace Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Heraclitus