Violence Quotes
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All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
Dalai Lama
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.
Ray Stevenson
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Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
Zainab Salbi
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Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. 'Casi divas' is a step toward a more commercially successful cinema, without the violence, blood and exaggerations. The movie reflects a more human Mexico, while remaining a chick flick, although it is not a romantic comedy.
Ana Layevska
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
Brad Holland
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I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Christine Baranski
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Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.
Mike Tyson
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Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.
Lee Tamahori
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Education is the vaccine for violence.
Edward James Olmos
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
Alan Bersin
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We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.
Janet Reno
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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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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
Clare Short
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Americans love to read about violence.
Bernadine Dohrn
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NATO continues to support a political solution which brings an end to the violence in Kosovo.
Javier Solana
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Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.
Loretta Lynch
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
Euripides
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Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.
Gabrielle Union
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Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.
Dalai Lama
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Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
Charles Krauthammer
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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.