Violence Quotes
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If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.
Leon Panetta
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When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.
Barack Obama
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
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We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.
Ari Shavit
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Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.
John Locke
Nazareth
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In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.
Carroll Quigley
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I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.
Chitra Ganesh
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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
Bernard Crick
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I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
James Gandolfini
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The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'
David Souter
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Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
Nathanael West
