Violence Quotes
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I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.
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We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.
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Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
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I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.
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Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.
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We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.
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Some people might shy away from a character like Deathstroke because, you know, all of the blood-letting and the swordplay and violence and all that other stuff.
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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
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We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.
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There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will always be incorrect when it comes to a man and a woman, regardless of what might have happened. You need to be man enough to take the blow. That is always the best way. Do not put your hands on a woman.
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As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.
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As I refuse violence, I refuse to serve the violent.
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Preventing gender-based violence is critical to establishing safe, productive, and healthy workplaces for all.
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Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.
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My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.
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The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
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These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
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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.
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All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
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The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive. (p. 201)
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We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
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We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle of violence, to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.
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I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.
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We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms.
