Joycelyn Elders Quotes
We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.
Joycelyn Elders
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
Cam Gigandet
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
Madeleine M. Kunin
When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
Sally Jewell
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
Walter Kirn
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
Inga Muscio
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
Rahm Emanuel
And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.
Barack Obama
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
Mahavira
The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.
Jane Goodall
Gandhi, that great apostle of non-violence, and Aung San, the founder of a national army, were very different personalities, but as there is an inevitable sameness about the challenges of authoritarian rule anywhere at any time, so there is a similarity in the intrinsic qualities of those who rise up to meet the challenge.
Aung San Suu Kyi
It's a long process transitioning from indie to mainstream, and it's not that easy because it's a different environment when you are in the indie industry.
Coco Martin
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
Jim Webb
A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.
Frank Tipler
Right after college, I got really into St. Vincent. She just is so cool and out there. I think that's super-inspiring. And tone and mood-wise, I just love Patsy Cline and Ray Charles.
Cam
No descubras, que puede no haber nada. Y nada no se vuelve a cubrir.
Antonio Porchia
One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.
Marcus Luttrell
We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.
Joycelyn Elders
