Violence Quotes
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
Patrick Henry
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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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In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.
Anurag Kashyap
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Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.
John Lennon The Beatles
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People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
P. D. James
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.
Alicia Garza
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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
Hannah Arendt
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It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
Burgess Owens
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Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.
Deeyah Khan
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.
Claudio Hummes
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The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
Hannah Arendt
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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.
bell hooks
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Violence is not funny.
William Friedkin
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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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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.
George A. Romero
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[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
Pele