Acts Of Violence Quotes

• Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Positive Thinking, Self, Violence

  Iyanla Vanzant (2013). “Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything”, p.176, Hay House, Inc

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

  Wendell Berry

  Rights, Justice, Defense

  "The Failure of War" by Wendell Berry, www.yesmagazine.org. November 5, 2001.

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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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• Violence does even justice unjustly.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Justice, Doe, Violence

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.20

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• I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

  Colin Farrell

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  "Set Visit: Total Recall!". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 12, 2012.

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• If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Age, Nuclear, May

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.45, Lantern Books

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• War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

  George Washington

  War, 4th Of July, Enemy

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• This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Warrior, People, Enemy

  "This is not crime, this is war" by Charles Krauthammer, townhall.com. September 12, 2001.

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• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Ignorance, Squares

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Class, Violence, Revolution

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.390, Open Road Media

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• You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

  Paul Watson

  Violence, Commit, Living Things

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• The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

  John Boehner

  Israel, Violence, Hezbollah

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• Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Animal, Thinking, Holocaust

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• In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Squares, Class

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16, Heinemann

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• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Beginnings, Able, Violence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “Rodin and Other Prose Pieces”

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• The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

  Brendan Behan

  Peace, War, Novelists

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• I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.

  Zainab Salbi

  Losing A Loved One, People, Historical

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Self, Violence, Compare

  Twitter post from Sep 2, 2012

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• I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more.

  Tony Blair

  Lying, Numbers, Isis

  "Tony Blair Works To Define The Problem Of Islamist Extremism". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Opportunity, Numbers, People

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

  Steven Pinker

  Mind, Religion, Atrocities

  Alan Page Fiske, Tage Shakti Rai, Steven Pinker (2014). “Virtuous Violence”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

  Steve Rushin

  Hockey, Nhl, Games

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