Power And Violence Quotes
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When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power. (Power And Violence Quotes)
The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace. (Power And Violence Quotes)
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. (Power And Violence Quotes)
For as long as the power of America’s diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. (Power And Violence Quotes)
The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power. (Power And Violence Quotes)
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger. (Power And Violence Quotes)
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor’s historic threat of violence against capital. (Power And Violence Quotes)
When I wrote ‘The Giver,’ it contained no so-called ‘bad words.’ It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of ‘The Giver’ there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power (Power And Violence Quotes)
The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible (Power And Violence Quotes)
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security (Power And Violence Quotes)
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely (Power And Violence Quotes)
They’re reacting and that’s wonderful. It’s better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever’s in your power to move the audience, and if that’s where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it (Power And Violence Quotes)
What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head (Power And Violence Quotes)
The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons (Power And Violence Quotes)
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression (Power And Violence Quotes)
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence (Power And Violence Quotes)
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness (Power And Violence Quotes)
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love (Power And Violence Quotes)
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity (Power And Violence Quotes)
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey (Power And Violence Quotes)
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror (Power And Violence Quotes)
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance (Power And Violence Quotes)
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will (Power And Violence Quotes)
The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun (Power And Violence Quotes)
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design (Power And Violence Quotes)
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance (Power And Violence Quotes)
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence (Power And Violence Quotes)