Violence Quotes
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Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.
Elizabeth Esty
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When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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I have quite a close relationship with violence and horror. They are enjoyable and terrible. I try and offset the horror with a sense of satisfaction or humor. You can't write a book that is entirely dark without having little spots that hopefully make you laugh out loud.
Evie Wyld
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As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.
Amy Klobuchar
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Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true, when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.
Mohammed VI of Morocco
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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.
William R. Ferris
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Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.
Georgia Taylor
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When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.
David Atwood
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Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.
David Grossman
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I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of "nil paseran" - "none shall pass" - in the face of fascism?
Hal Duncan
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Leon Trotsky
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
Eve Ensler
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
Hillary Clinton
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I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
Colm Toibin
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On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.
Troy Polamalu
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Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.
Nigel Gibson
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Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
Emil Cioran
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Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.
Barack Obama
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We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.
Joycelyn Elders
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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Joan Baez