“We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Humans were still just a bunch of bipedal apes, divided into arbitrary tribes that were constantly at war over their ruined planet’s dwindling natural resources.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“When you find somebody like, let's say, Ted Bundy, who tortured and killed all those women and sometimes went back and had sex with the dead bodies, I don't think when you look at his upbringing... That behavior was hard-wired. Evil is inside us. The older I get, the less I think there's some sort o…”— Stephen King, rollingstone.com
“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fi…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“By the way, and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”— Donald Trump, time.com
“The darkness that haunts the lynch mob that in the day time is dispersed as lawyers, doctors, and church alderman. But that darkness hovers ghostlike in the shadowed alleys between the buildings. And at night it is all crazed power and torture, a thrill deeper that any ever imagined in the sleepy da…”— Karl Marlantes, amazon.com
“It’s easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I’ve done it myself. But it isn’t religion that’s wired that way – it’s man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don’t they all teach that to do for others feels b…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Never again" becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say. Never again jail and torture. Never again the suffering of innocent people, or the shooting of starving, frightened, terrified children. And never again the glorification of base,…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“War is an attempt to solve some people's problems by killing other people. It is an attempt to destroy evil by doing evil. Thus all wars are lost. War is the attempt to make one evil into zero evils, but it makes one evil into two evils.”— Peter Kreeft, amazon.com
“The main motives for violence: the fear of shame and ridicule, and the overbearing need to prevent others from laughing at oneself by making them weep instead.”— James Gilligan, amazon.com
“Understanding violence ultimately requires learning how to translate violent actions into words.”— James Gilligan, amazon.com
“Those who kill others do so in part because they cannot stand to think that others are alive while they are not, and they cannot bear their living death.”— James Gilligan, amazon.com
“American violence is the result of our collective 'moral choice' to maintain those social policies that in turn maintain our uniquely high level of violence.”— James Gilligan, amazon.com
“Seems every few decades the World goes batshit crazy. Just long enough to forget the last time the World went batshit crazy.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“After the recent terror attacks in the United States and Western Europe, as well Iraq and Afghanistan, it would be easy to conclude that the world is becoming more dangerous. The politicians and media have contributed to our growing sense of unease. Donald Trump claims that crime is rising, while Hi…”— Marian Tupy, reason.com