Violence Quotes
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The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.
Derek Walcott -
What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.
Iain Banks
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I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Christine Baranski -
What can I do to create a healthy work environment? Because we have all been groomed to the normalization of violence and the normalization of abuse. And we refuse to live in that society.
Jessica Chastain -
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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
John Conyers
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If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.
John Bates Clark -
I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.
Bernhard Goetz -
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
Barack Obama -
I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.
Barack Obama -
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
Sandra Cisneros -
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.
Dalai Lama
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.
Abraham Lincoln -
The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.
Marianne Williamson -
They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.
Philip Kaufman -
Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.
Conner Eldridge -
We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.
Karamo Brown -
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.
Leo Tolstoy
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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II -
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
Leon Trotsky