Violence Quotes
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The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
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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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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
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It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
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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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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.
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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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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.
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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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Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.
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I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator.
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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
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The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.
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The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.
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You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
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We cannot stop senseless violence without the rule of law and security forces that represent and respect every segment of society.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
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What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
