Violence Quotes
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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.
Haider al-Abadi
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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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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.
Saint Augustine
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If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
Andrei Lankov
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He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
Thomas Aquinas
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The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
Bryant H. McGill
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If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.
Steven Pinker
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I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
Michael Hastings
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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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It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.
Anna Friel
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Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.
Boaz Ganor
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Videos of Antifa violence, some of them doctored, are regularly shared on conservative, pro-Trump and conspiracy theory-pushing websites, often with commentary that suggests the media purposefully ignores those events. These videos often do not often include wider context or numbers.
Elizabeth Flock
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I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
John Howard
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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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We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.
Aja Brown
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.
Derek Cianfrance
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Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.
Edgar Friedenberg
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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
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Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.
Dalai Lama
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Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
Mother Teresa