Violence Quotes
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I want people to leave the theater with a greater understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan. Song of Lahore moves beyond headlines and stereotypes and shows that a vast majority of Pakistanis are not perpetrators of religious violence - they are victims of it. The beautiful cultural heritage of the region belies its image in the West as monolithically religious, intolerant, and violent. (Violence Quotes)
It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. (Violence Quotes)
I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they’re doing. (Violence Quotes)
All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children. (Violence Quotes)
In it’s purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it’s a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished. (Violence Quotes)
War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty. (Violence Quotes)
It’s so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I’m such a wimp in who I am. (Violence Quotes)
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I’m consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. (Violence Quotes)
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis. (Violence Quotes)
I’ve learned that intelligence alone doesn’t mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain. (Violence Quotes)
The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a colonized imagination that is drained of dangerous hope. (Violence Quotes)
Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening. (Violence Quotes)
She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence. (Violence Quotes)
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... (Violence Quotes)
Beware of dead religions.Beware of teachers and preachers of dead religions.Dead religions promote sin, hatred, violence and intolerance etc. (Violence Quotes)
As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can’t pretend that these things don’t affect these characters; they have to. If they don’t, then you’re essentially writing cartoons. (Violence Quotes)
Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this. (Violence Quotes)
I try to write lyrics so that they won’t age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence. (Violence Quotes)
Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship. (Violence Quotes)
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there’s part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born. (Violence Quotes)
I’ve never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I’ve lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself. (Violence Quotes)
A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands. (Violence Quotes)
What deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In ‘Hat Love’). (Violence Quotes)
Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen (Violence Quotes)
Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor... (Violence Quotes)
Either well succeed, or we won’t succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence. (Violence Quotes)
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. (Violence Quotes)
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable. (Violence Quotes)
I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies (Violence Quotes)
I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach. (Violence Quotes)