Violence Quotes
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When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.
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The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
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Plus fait douceur que violence.
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As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.
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There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
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If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
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It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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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.'
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Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.
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The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, must be banned.
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The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.
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Violence is an expression of impotence.
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When you glorify violence, then it comes back to bite you.
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I always knew that the violence would be something that would be probably be brought up, but actually it's nothing to do with the movie. The first two minutes are all about establishing fear, that something horrible is going to happen. It [the violence] was done really quickly, and it wasn't like pornography where you can like dwell over it, you know. It had to be done, we had to kill some people.
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Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
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It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.
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I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.
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The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
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I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.
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The fantastic thing about 'Jasper Jones' is that although it's set in 1969, the themes are still so topical. We're still struggling with racism and sexism and domestic violence and abuse.
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How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?
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Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.
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As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.
