Violence Quotes - Page 29

• Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Order, Opposites

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.571, Vintage

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• It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

  Rosamund Pike

  Mean, Games, Support

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• The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.

  Robert M. Morgenthau

  Flames, Safety, Effort

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• The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

  Bill Ayers

  Past, Half, World

  "Bill Ayers: The United States Is the Foremost Threat to World Peace Today". Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, en.farsnews.com. December 06, 2014.

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• The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Errors, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “The affluent society”, Hamish Hamilton

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• And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by force, by violence. There is no way to control and discipline it. The people who have tried to control and discipline it have made the world very pornographic. Your so-called saints have a very pornographic mind. If a window can be created and a hole can be made in their heads, you will be able to see just sex, pornography. it is bound to be so. It is natural.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Discipline, People

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• Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Land, Racism

  SPIN interview, thechilisource.com. February 1990.

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• The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, School, Hands

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 14, 2015

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• Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

  Leon Trotsky

  Beautiful, Evil, Generations

  Leon Trotsky, Isaac Deutscher (1964). “The age of permanent revolution: a Trotsky anthology”

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• The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes kill thousands, but nobody in America holds vigils or devotes much news coverage to those victims, many of which are children, albeit, of a different color.

  Ron Paul

  Children, War, Home

  "Ron Paul Slams NRA Plan Recommending Armed Officers In Schools", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.

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• The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, School, Gun

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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• Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, War

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• Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

  Carl Jung

  Terror

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.74, Routledge

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• Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Trying, Spirit

  Mahatma Gandhi (2000). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Passion, Government

  Passage written in 1908 for for 'The Law of Love and the Law of Violence'. "Equality in Liberty and Justice". Book by Antony Flew, p. 89, 2001.

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• I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Mad, Risk

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.77, Hackett Publishing

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• Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Littles, Matter

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• I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Order, Punishment

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.158, Tara Publishing

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• Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Judging

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• At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Offering, People

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• Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Evil, Reform

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.491, Modern Library

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• I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

  John Woo

  Evil, Messages, Action

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• The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

  George W. Bush

  Freedom, Men, Creative

  Address to the Nation -- Ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, delivered 17 March 2003 from the Cross Hall at the White House

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• We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Against Violence, Dignity

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• I believe humor nullifies violence.

  John Wayne

  Believe, I Believe

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