Violence Quotes
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We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we’re seeing today. (Violence Quotes)
One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don’t want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It’s important that they’re not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There’s grief in my books. (Violence Quotes)
In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development. (Violence Quotes)
The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness. (Violence Quotes)
Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity. (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. (Violence Quotes)
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education. (Violence Quotes)
The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope. (Violence Quotes)
The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too. (Violence Quotes)
Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don’t use the term black-on-black violence, since I’ve never heard the term white-on-white violence. (Violence Quotes)
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. (Violence Quotes)
I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent. (Violence Quotes)
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love. (Violence Quotes)
American violence is public life, it’s a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form. (Violence Quotes)
The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that’s not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence. (Violence Quotes)
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism. (Violence Quotes)
Game of Thrones’ cares about children. Children are heirs. There’s no hemming and hawing about how they’re desensitized to violence or they cost too much to send to college. They’re a blessing - in many ways the only blessing - and even the evil ones have parents who love them. (Violence Quotes)
Love isn’t blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you’ll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn’t automatically a bad thing. (Violence Quotes)
Women like to be scared, but they don’t like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don’t want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now. (Violence Quotes)
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence. (Violence Quotes)
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don’t use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks. (Violence Quotes)
Nobody’s born evil. I guess that’s why we’re drawn to violence. We’re fascinated by it, but there’s a moral in how you examine it. (Violence Quotes)
There is a need for everyone’s brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness. (Violence Quotes)
There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can’t help break now and then on TV (Violence Quotes)
Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we’ll never break the cycle of violence and indifference. (Violence Quotes)
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence. (Violence Quotes)
Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law (Violence Quotes)
The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence. (Violence Quotes)
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences. (Violence Quotes)
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule (Violence Quotes)