Violence Quotes
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Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.
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Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.
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Ethno-sectarian violence is a particular concern in Iraq, as it is a cancer that continues to spread if left unchecked.
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The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.
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To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
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In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.
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I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
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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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An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.
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Violence multiplies violence.
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Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.
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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.
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Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages.
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There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
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One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.
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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
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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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In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
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Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.
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Violence always thrived on counter violence.
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If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.
