Claudius Claudianus Quotes
Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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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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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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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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Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
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Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
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Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.
