Violence Quotes
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NATO is resolved to persevere until the violence in Kosovo has ended and a political solution has been reached.
Javier Solana
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In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.
Bhagat Singh
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
Pat Conroy
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In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
bell hooks
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I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney Love
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Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.
James Forman, Jr.
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A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.… The state is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence.
Bernard Bailyn
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
Cornel Wilde
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Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.
Bhagat Singh
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Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.
David Blunkett
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I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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The only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
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Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.
Conner Eldridge
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with what violence benevolence is bought what cost in gesture justice brings what wrongs domestic rights involve what stalks this silence
Charles Olson
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I don't support violence, period.
Edward James Olmos
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They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.
James Comey
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Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.
Brian Schatz
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When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.
Nolan Bushnell