Violence Quotes
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People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.
Steven Soderbergh
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It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.
Molly Ivins
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As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.
Wole Soyinka
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So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.
William H. Macy
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Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.
Hillary Clinton
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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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Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.
Haruki Murakami
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When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.
Chang-Rae Lee
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Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital.
Eric Van Lustbader
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One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter.
Eve Ensler
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I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.
Eric Holder
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Speaking, I wished to eliminate both me and him, in that bed, different from the children of long ago. We had in common only the violence we had witnessed.
Elena Ferrante
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It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
Catherine Deneuve
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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
Gautama Buddha
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The occupation is a source of violence that has to stop.
Hanan Ashrawi
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Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.
Eve Ensler
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On the one hand, Klaus, surely the only man in Topeka outfitted in white linen, could not take these kids—with their refrigerators full of food, their air-conditioning and television, their freedom from stigma or state violence—seriously; what could be more obvious than the fact that they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering, a kind of neuropathy that came from too much ease, too much sugar, a kind of existential gout?
Ben Lerner
