Violence Quotes
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In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
Marianne Williamson
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Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.
Angelina Jolie
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
Ben Jonson
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If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
Deepak Chopra
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[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.
Anne-Marie Duff
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy
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Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.
Warren Farrell
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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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It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin Scorsese
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I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
Alexander Walker
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Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.
Jason Winston George
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Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.
Uri Avnery
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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
Vaclav Havel
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For us, it is fundamental. We cannot cooperate with an organization that won't renounce violence and be able to negotiate with the other side.
Javier Solana
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For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
Javier Camara
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Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.
Ann McLane Kuster
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I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
Johnny Weissmuller
