Violence Quotes - Page 34

• An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Agriculture, Today

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• The only thing we should prohibit is violence.

  Ron Paul

  Should

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• If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Doe, Injustice, Crime

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• Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.

  Dick Gregory

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Life, Men, He Man

  "Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?".

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• A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.

  Aisha Tyler

  Careers, Feminism, Want

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• I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Compassion, Rights

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• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Israel, Agreement, Organization

  Abbas UN speech: Annotated extracts, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2011.

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• At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

  Jane Harman

  Israel, Groups, Action

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Hands, Long

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• Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

  Jack Donovan

  Law, Finals, Answers

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• There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Civilization, Racism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.158, Beacon Press

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• If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

  Miroslav Volf

  Names, Suffering, Unseen

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• I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Running, Dream, Passion

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• When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Differences, Opponents, Possibility

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

  Ron Paul

  Drug, Prison, Crime

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• If we are demoralized, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not solve our problems. We need to face them, to deal with them without violence, but with confidence - and never give up. If you adopt a non-violent approach, but are also hesitant within, you’ll not succeed. You have to have confidence and keep up your efforts - in other words, never give up.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Effort, Faces

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• Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

  Monique Wittig

  Peace, Together, Earth

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• Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Gone, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

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• Violence begins where knowledge ends.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ends

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• When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Men, Use, Justification

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• ...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire consequences. Certain pathologies are increasing, with their psychological consequences; fear and desperation grip the hearts of many people, even in the so-called rich countries; the joy of life is diminishing; indecency and violence are on the rise; poverty is becoming more and more evident. People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Struggle, Heart

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• We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Sex, Sleep, Breathing

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