Violence Quotes
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
B. F. Skinner -
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
Mahmoud Abbas
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The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
Walid Jumblatt -
All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
Osman Baydemir -
Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
J. D. Vance -
BJP is the mothership of violence.
Kapil Sibal -
The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
Oliver Tambo -
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
J. G. Ballard
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
Samantha Morton -
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better
Daniel Berrigan -
Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.
Van Jones -
Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.
John Hillcoat -
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
Vano Merabishvili -
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
Linda Chavez
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Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.
Jake Lloyd -
Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
Taylor Sheridan -
Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.
Nat Hentoff -
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Warren Zevon -
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.
Peter Yarrow -
I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical.
Lea Seydoux
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X -
I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
Park Chan-wook -
As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.
Bob McNair -
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela