Violence Quotes - Page 24

• Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

  Colman McCarthy

  War, Fighting, Fire

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• This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Time, Fire, Oil

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• On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

  Kofi Annan

  Peace, Heart, Honor

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• It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.

  Kevin Bales

  Talking, Numbers, People

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• The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.

  Kenneth Bacon

  Children, War, School

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• Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Doe, Savages, Lucky

  "A Victory" by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1958.

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• The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

  David Abrahamsen

  Dream, Country, People

  San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, November 18, 1975.

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• Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship will become different - totally different. Love will be the basic note of your relationship, not violence. As it is, violence is the basic note. Even if you look at someone, you look in a violent way. But we are accustomed to it.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Mirrors, Meditation

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• Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Weed, Fear, Marijuana

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• Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Pain, People, World

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• We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Community, Inclusion

  Hillary Clinton's speech on Opportunity in the Americas in Quito, Ecuador, library.brown.edu. June 8, 2010.

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• I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, History, Way

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• A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

  Alexander Smith

  History, Tower Of Babel, Towers

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• I'm not saying people should go out and start killing," the California-based Vlasak says. But he's not saying activists shouldn't kill either, even though he's a doctor, devoted to mending people. "There's a lot of violence used against animals" Vlasak rationalizes. And some of those responsible won't stop, he says, "until they are forced to stop.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Doctors, California

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• Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable one...the Press Office would like to be clear on this matter: we support all the liberationists ­ from the graffiti artists and ALF liberator to the Animal Rights Militia, Justice Department and Revolutionary Cells.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Artist, Animal

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• I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Animal, Thinking

  "Kill scientists, says animal rights chief" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2004.

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• Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

  Patty Murray

  Anger, School, Kids

  Live Chat, www.scholastic.com. October 5, 1994.

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• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  Caleb Carr

  Military, Anger, Kids

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• And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics. She must be repudiated by the members of her own party. And if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling. And they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party.

  Keith Olbermann

  Party, Eye, Doe

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• But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Transition, Compromise, Democratic

  "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

  Park Chan-wook

  Heart, Coward, Watches

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• Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

  Friedrich Ebert

  Democracy, Matter, Reactionaries

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• The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

  Adam Gopnik

  Loyalty, Past, Desire

  "Blows Against the Empire" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2007.

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• It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Compassion, Our World

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• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty

  Ike Skelton

  Military, Iraq, Together

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