Violence Quotes
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As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child’s bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost. (Violence Quotes)
Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength. (Violence Quotes)
We don’t need no more danger, we don’t need no more difficulties, we don’t need no more misunderstanding, and we don’t need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other. (Violence Quotes)
Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence was reduced because, for the first time since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqis felt that there was a force capable of dominating the situation and ensuring basic order. (Violence Quotes)
Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace. (Violence Quotes)
I’d like to know why sociologists can’t decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there’s a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers. (Violence Quotes)
If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it’s always people dying of violence or stray bullets. (Violence Quotes)
The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old Q’orianka Kilcher) may cause cardiac arrest among some viewers. (Violence Quotes)
We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence. (Violence Quotes)
Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence. (Violence Quotes)
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world’s largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence. (Violence Quotes)
To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many demands,...To commit oneself to too many projects,To want to help everyone with everythingIs to succumb to violence. (Violence Quotes)
War has traditionally been a man’s work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence. (Violence Quotes)
For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war. (Violence Quotes)
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don’t deal with the causes we will never be safe. (Violence Quotes)
What’s really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn’t just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem. (Violence Quotes)
People who say that violence doesn’t accomplish anything have not read history. I don’t celebrate that reality, but there you have it. (Violence Quotes)
Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death. (Violence Quotes)
I think that when we’re talking about youth violence, we’re talking about kids who don’t have opportunities, so they’re engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. (Violence Quotes)
But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don’t want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated. (Violence Quotes)
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don’t know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. (Violence Quotes)
In war, it feels like everything you’re doing is more important because you’re in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world. (Violence Quotes)
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down. (Violence Quotes)
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it’s not a perfect correlation, and it doesn’t have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change. (Violence Quotes)
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood. (Violence Quotes)
Children have rights outside their mother’s womb without having to be victim’s of Domestic Violence inside their mother’s womb. (Violence Quotes)
If you help disabled children, it’s very appealing. If you help kids with cancer, those are the things you get credit for and those things are beautiful. But when it comes to stopping violence or really putting the time into rebuilding schools, that’s just a different kind of project. It takes more than just money to do that. (Violence Quotes)
Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues. (Violence Quotes)
They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children’s movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children. (Violence Quotes)
I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner. (Violence Quotes)