Violence Quotes
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People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
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Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.
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The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
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I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
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Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.
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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
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We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.
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While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.
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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
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Violence is not funny.
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Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.
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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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At a DNC fundraiser in Florida, as quoted in 'Obama condemns violence at Trump rally' by Evelyn Rupert, The Hill (3 June 2016)
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If you take away people's identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don't be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.
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Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
