Violence Quotes
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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
Norm MacDonald
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There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
Peter Berg
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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace?
Katie Hopkins
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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 have always felt,' he said, 'that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.'
Neil Gaiman
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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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I have no confusion in my mind about that. It was a tragedy, it was a painful experience. You say that the Congress party was involved in that, I don’t agree with that. Certainly there was violence, certainly there was tragedy.
Rahul Gandhi
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The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
John Keegan
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
Lewis H. Lapham
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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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I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Christine Baranski
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If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.
Walter Block
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You can't change the system through violence.
Alex Cox
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
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History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.
Bill Foster
