Violence Quotes
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All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence... the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history (Violence Quotes)
Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together (Violence Quotes)
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence... politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good (Violence Quotes)
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design (Violence Quotes)
There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation (Violence Quotes)
When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table (Violence Quotes)
There’s more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that (Violence Quotes)
Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded (Violence Quotes)
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause (Violence Quotes)
Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom (Violence Quotes)
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone (Violence Quotes)
It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind (Violence Quotes)
Violence is an admission that one’s ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits (Violence Quotes)
The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity (Violence Quotes)
Kids can’t see us bombing, and then listen to us talking about getting guns out of the schools. How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, if, in fact, we can’t show an ability to solve problems without violence? (Violence Quotes)
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust (Violence Quotes)
There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you’re legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn’t, and what really has an impact, recognizing you’re never going to do away entirely with gun violence (Violence Quotes)
The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip (Violence Quotes)
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes (Violence Quotes)
If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence... That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself (Violence Quotes)
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation (Violence Quotes)
There’s been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men’s violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that (Violence Quotes)
We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest (Violence Quotes)
The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence (Violence Quotes)
If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence! (Violence Quotes)
We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence (Violence Quotes)
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence (Violence Quotes)
Our position was: If you don’t attack us, there won’t be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves (Violence Quotes)
Contention, especially violence, is not the way to deal with our problems. Unfortunately, television, videos, movies, and electronic games teach otherwise. Even cartoons and many children’s programs depict violence in amusing ways, suggesting that no one really gets hurt and that any disagreement can be solved by a karate kick or the use of some weapon (Violence Quotes)
These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence (Violence Quotes)