Violence Quotes
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The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington. (Violence Quotes)
While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence. (Violence Quotes)
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. (Violence Quotes)
There are criminal aliens in this country who have come into this country who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives. (Violence Quotes)
I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence (Violence Quotes)
Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women (Violence Quotes)
Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don’t want that. (Violence Quotes)
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society. (Violence Quotes)
I’ve been on the wrong end of violence, and I’ve done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles. (Violence Quotes)
Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet. (Violence Quotes)
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state. (Violence Quotes)
I don’t want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness. (Violence Quotes)
It’s the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred! That is something we are taught, it’s a Choice You Make. (Violence Quotes)
With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another. (Violence Quotes)
Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book. (Violence Quotes)
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I’m just trying to understand where it came from. (Violence Quotes)
I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that’s the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say. (Violence Quotes)
I get in trouble when I say things like, ‘I’m attracted to violence.’ I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I’m just trying to understand where it came from. (Violence Quotes)
One effect of an individualistic culture that’s poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence. (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. (Violence Quotes)
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I’m interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women. (Violence Quotes)
It’s funny what actors take issue with. Some won’t do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won’t ever play anyone remotely unlikable - ‘Heroes only, please.’ Some won’t do violence. I have no such qualms. (Violence Quotes)
I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don’t know. (Violence Quotes)
Because I’m a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn’t be a part of it. (Violence Quotes)
Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective. (Violence Quotes)
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and terrorism employed by Muslim extremists is rooted in the Quran and its message. Spencer calls the Quran, a book sacred to Muslim, ‘the jihadists’ Mein Kampf,’ in reference to Hitler’s memoir. (Violence Quotes)
And we’ve also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that’s in Iraq. (Violence Quotes)
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability. (Violence Quotes)
Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don’t proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want. (Violence Quotes)
It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It’s not blind violence. It’s with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere. (Violence Quotes)