Violence Quotes
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The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.
William Butler Yeats
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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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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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One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.
Annia Ciezadlo
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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 history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.
Clint Smith
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.
Leon Panetta
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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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It is the duty of all troops and police in my command to adopt the severest measures. Every act of violence committed by partisans must be punished immediately. Reports submitted must also give details of countermeasures taken. Wherever there is evidence of a considerable number of partisan groups a proportion of the male population of the area will be arrested, and in the event of an act of violence being committed these men will be shot.
Albert Kesselring
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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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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
Sherman Alexie
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I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator.
Muhammad Ali
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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.
Gene Sharp
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.
Ban Ki-moon
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Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
Gautama Buddha
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I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
Jeff Lemire
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I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
John Abizaid
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
Hannah Arendt
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
Noam Chomsky
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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.
Carlos Andres Gomez
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There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.
Alessandro Michele