Alice Schwarzer Quotes
We also can't be naïve when it comes to the refugees. Men who commit violence should of course be deported to their countries of origin. We already have enough problems here and we don't need to import anymore.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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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.
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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.
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I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
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I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed aside by those folks who are absolutely beholden to the NRA.
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Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things.
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Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
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When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.
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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
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In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.
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What is the point of all this violence? Nothing is being proven, nothing is being won. Just a massive waste of life. God help us. Love>death
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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.
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.
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Education is the vaccine for violence.
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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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On the whole, more harm than good is done by medication.
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The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.
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We also can't be naïve when it comes to the refugees. Men who commit violence should of course be deported to their countries of origin. We already have enough problems here and we don't need to import anymore.
