Violence Quotes - Page 20

• In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

  Victor Cruz

  Cities, Crime, Happens

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• War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Opponents, Acts Of Violence

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.7, Aegitas

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• When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

  Pam W. Vredevelt

  Hurt, Pain, Squares

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• I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Vegetarianism

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• The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Sex, Demand, Trafficking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us.

  Donald Miller

  Religious, Strong, Father

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• In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.

  Jesus Huerta de Soto

  Government, Views, Greek

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• Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Drug, Filipino

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• 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.

  Philip Kaufman

  Children, Thinking, Lax

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• Violence often brings about momentary results.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Results, Peace And Justice

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heaven, Temptation, Wish

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Mean, Self

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• The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

  Pope Francis

  Marijuana, Suffering And Death, Drug

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• Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

  David D. Aitken

  Government, Use, Libertarian

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• Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

  Kurt Schmoke

  Drug, Libertarian, Prohibition

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• Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Libertarian, Currency, Ruined

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• Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead because of this government. If you are too stupid to turn things around with your vote, there are people out here like me who are willing to turn things around with guns, force and violence. We hope our method does not become necessary.

  Hal Turner

  Country, Sorry, Stupid

  "'Assassination' Schedule Announced For Congress". www.wnd.com. December 6, 2006.

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• If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

  Arno Gruen

  People, Anxiety, Identity

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• I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Animal, Tactics

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• If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Use, Way

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• The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Ego, Flow

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.) (1984). “The Long and the Short and the All”, Osho International Foundation

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• Everyone in the world should sleep without fear at least for one night, sleep without fear. Everyone in the world should eat to their fill, at least for one day, eat to their fill. There should be one day when there is no violence, no one is injured, no one is harmed. All people young and old should serve the poor and needy, at least for one day serve selflessly. This is my dream....this is my prayer. Love is the answer, love is the way. Love is the answer, love is the way.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Dream, Prayer

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• It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Lying, Mean

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• Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jesus, Powerful, Church

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Theology News Interview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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