Violence Quotes
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Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor. (Violence Quotes)
Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there’s no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value. (Violence Quotes)
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment (Violence Quotes)
The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn’t being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights. (Violence Quotes)
I’m not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. (Violence Quotes)
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. (Violence Quotes)
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women’s safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. (Violence Quotes)
Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights (Violence Quotes)
American Sniper’ is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained referent to the mental problems many vets live with when they return home from the war. (Violence Quotes)
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common. (Violence Quotes)
We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting. (Violence Quotes)
Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone. (Violence Quotes)
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. (Violence Quotes)
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey. (Violence Quotes)
There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian beliefs motivating his desire to attack and murder three people, including a police officer, in Colorado.That man is a Christian. He`s an avowed Christian. He appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence. (Violence Quotes)
America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn’t like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries. (Violence Quotes)
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. (Violence Quotes)
As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we’ll see violence drop even further. After all, when there’s a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you’re more responsible for your behavior. (Violence Quotes)
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease (Violence Quotes)
There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence. (Violence Quotes)
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. (Violence Quotes)
I don’t know many South Africans who don’t have their eyes wide open to what it’s like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not. (Violence Quotes)
[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. (Violence Quotes)
In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern. (Violence Quotes)
Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apartIt’s sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds. (Violence Quotes)
Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaiming our bodies and changing the world. (Violence Quotes)
We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it’s a public and political problem. It’s a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places. (Violence Quotes)
For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It’s not violence on them - it’s the feeling of violence in the family. (Violence Quotes)
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it’s something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn’t mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that. (Violence Quotes)
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. ‘Is it envy,’ you ask? I don’t know... I’ve had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who’s an ambassador... perhaps God doesn’t permit that much. (Violence Quotes)