Violence Quotes
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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
William H. Macy
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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.
Eric Holder
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Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.
Eve Ensler
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As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. But what I don't like is the gore. I don't like gratuitous violence and killing and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of an interesting paradox.
Corey Feldman
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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
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A.J. Muste never engaged in violence but he believed, as Mahatma Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.
Nat Hentoff
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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
Leon Trotsky
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While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence or be abusive to others, especially towards his partner and family. I am proud to support the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.
Danny Care
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There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.
Rashid al-Ghannushi
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Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
Wim Wenders
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Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.
Wole Soyinka
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
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When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
Eustace Budgell
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Others haven’t had the same luck. In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we’re startled, we’re alarmed.
Elena Ferrante
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We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.
Jon Bernthal
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Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.
Hillary Clinton
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
Eve Ensler
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Violence is not the way.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead
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To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
Emil Cioran
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Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.
David Schneider
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Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.
Ezra Miller