Amira Hass Quotes
The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.
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To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?
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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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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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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.
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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.
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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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There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
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You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.
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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
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Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us.
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When you like something, you should do it all night long.
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There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.
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The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.
