Violence Quotes - Page 7

• Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Girl, School, Knowing

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• For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

  Riane Eisler

  Children, Women, Law

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• The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

  William O. Douglas

  Use, Persuasion, Instruments

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• I do not like violence.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

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• To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Rejection, Accepting, Renounce

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• Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Historical, Association

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• Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

  Bobby Seale

  Position, Ifs

  "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

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• It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Injustice, Crime

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Football, Business, People

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• Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

  Newton N. Minow

  Baby, Growing Up, Children

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• They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhist, Determination

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• I don't like violence.

  Katey Sagal

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• Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Identity, Quests

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• If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Inspirational, Peace, Future

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

  Gary Larson

  Believe, Animal, Thinking

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• Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

  George Will

  Football, Inspiration, Nfl

  International Herald Tribune, May 07, 1990.

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• But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

  Simon Schama

  War, Gone, Cruelty

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• Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.

  Philip Stubbs

  Football, Hurt, Beastly

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• The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

  Norman Mailer

  Suicide, Spirit, Murder

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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• We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

  Charles Clarke

  Responsibility, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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• As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Domestic Violence, Ambassadors

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• If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

  Dalai Lama

  Clever, Inspiration, Mother And Son

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• Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Sin, Inconvenience

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.108, Rutgers University Press

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• Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Hate, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.11, Templeton Foundation Press

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