Violence Quotes
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Plus fait douceur que violence.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Hillary Clinton has spent those decades before her time in public office and since her time in public office advocating for common sense measures to fight gun violence.
Elizabeth Esty
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
Tacitus
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I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.
William H. Macy
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I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.
Wayne LaPierre
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Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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This historically has been an issue that both parties have run away from. For the first time, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in its platform are making this issue, about needing to do better as a country to take common sense steps to help prevent gun violence.
Elizabeth Esty
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A society that rewards people for violence will get more violence. A society that tolerates people who violate the non-aggression principle will be ruled by aggressive people. A society that believes aggression is necessary in order to function will institutionalize coercion and reward those who provide what it considers necessary.
Adam Kokesh
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Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
Bahá'u'lláh
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Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.
Minor White
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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.
Pim Fortuyn
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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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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.
Chuck Klosterman
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Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.
Brian Aldiss
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Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.
Will Self
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The debate ends, the action begins. It is not a question of the necessity of violence, but how to organize it to fit our unique situation, to tie it with flawless exactitude to our political activity, and to organize it immediately.
George Jackson
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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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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.
Ernest Gaines
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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.
Keith Allen
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The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.
Bill Clinton
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I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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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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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.
Walter Brueggemann