Violence Quotes
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We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence
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All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
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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.
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Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
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The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
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On our part we have given our assurance there will be no act of violence by the L.T.T.E. against government forces.
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I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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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.
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In the early 1970s psychologist David Olds was working in a Baltimore day-care center where many of the preschoolers came from homes wracked by poverty, domestic violence, and drug abuse. Aware that only addressing the children’s problems at school was not sufficient to improve their home conditions, he started a home-visitation program in which skilled nurses helped mothers to provide a safe and stimulating environment for their children and, in the process, to imagine a better future for themselves. Twenty years later, the children of the home-visitation mothers.
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Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.
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If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.
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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.
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A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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We have to understand (this is another key piece) that there are some individuals who still need that drama, that experience of violence.
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Violence is not the way.
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Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.
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Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
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I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.
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Like so many of you, I am deeply distressed both by the hateful violence in Charlottesville and by President Trump's refusal to clearly denounce it. Nobody with any empathy for the plight of people of color in this country could respond the way he did.
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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.
