Violence Quotes - Page 38

• All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

  Pratibha Patil

  Country, Moving, Destiny

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• The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Choices, Modern, Existence

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• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  Ed Koch

  Jail, Ifs

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• The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

  Ray Winstone

  Sex, Drama, World

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

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• Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

  Bo Derek

  Sex, Terrible

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• Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'.

  Joe Biden

  Attitude, America, Domestic Violence

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• Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• With every righteous action, we prepare the way for the New Earth on which righteousness will dwell. And bringing justice to those who suffer violence means to bring the light of God's future to them.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Mean, Light, Justice

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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

  Lenny Bruce

  Despair, World, Disease

  The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, epigram (1967)

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• The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Lying, Simple

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• Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

  Nigel Farage

  Causes, Harmony, Insurgency

  "Nobel Peace Prize awarded to European Union". www.bbc.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Moving, Atoms

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Triumph, World, Kingdoms

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.39, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Stanley Hauerwas (2007). “Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)”, p.37, Brazos Press

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• It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

  Anna Friel

  Careers, Domestic Violence, Important

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• A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

  B. F. Skinner

  Sex, Children, Men

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• ...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Feminist, Males

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Silence, Rejection, Empathy

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• These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

  Anna Friel

  Speaks Out, Giving, Domestic Violence

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• The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere popular fiction like this is about sex and violence. One reader's sex, alas, is another's love; and one's violence, another's death.

  Gene Wolfe

  Sex, Mean, Fiction

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• Recently, I was in Africa monitoring elections when right on the street, this guy started beating a woman. I got out of my car, pulled her inside and drove her to the hospital. But after the doctors treated her, she was too afraid to press charges. I've seen this over and over in America, too.

  Barbara Lee

  America, Doctors, Car

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• Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Duration

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• We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of the resurrection must be experienced as a victory of life, of brotherhood, of the future, of hope.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Victory, Brotherhood, Resurrection

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• Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While it requires sacrificial service, it is not a call to martyrdom. In many cases of domestic violence, a therapeutic separation is necessary to gain safety and direct attention to the gravity of the need for change.

  Rob Jackson

  Two, People, Safety

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