Mahavira Quotes

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

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• BJP is the mothership of violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Violence

• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Luck

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • High
  • Violence

• I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Simple

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Well

• I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Free
  • Environment
  • Violence

• 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
  • Serious
  • Violence
  • Waiting

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Violence
  • Feel

• You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Work
  • Home
  • Child

• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Decades
  • Until

• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Violence

• 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
  • World
  • Fear
  • Violence

• When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Violence
  • Religion
  • Dreams

• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Taken
  • Trust
  • Democracy

• Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • You
  • Violence

• I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Forever
  • Violence

• Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • People
  • Great
  • Society

• I'd like to tour all over the world. I'd like to be everywhere. I've really wanted to tour out of the country. I think that would be really cool.

  

  Jimmy Bennett
  • World
  • Country
  • Cool

• It's all about trying to find those projects where you get to enjoy yourself, because I think that's when you create as well: when you're genuinely excited about something. Then you're not just doing it because it's your job.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Trying
  • Job

• All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

  

  Mahavira
  • Violence