Violence Quotes - Page 39

• You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

  Saint Augustine

  Hurt, Self Love, Enemy

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• Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Punishment

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

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• The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,-a black monster bent on swallowing everything; in short, destruction and violence.

  Emma Goldman

  Children, Philosophy, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.27, 谷月社

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• When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

  Jim Costa

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

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• Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

  Murray Rothbard

  Organization, Use, Coercion

  Murray Newton Rothbard (19??). “The Anatomy of the State”, p.11, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

  Dan McCall

  Government, Answers, Problem

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• Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

  Thomas Kyd

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Renounce, Obliged

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• Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

  John Dear

  Acceptance, Order, Suffering And Death

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.82, Image

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• The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.

  Jon Kyl

  Mean, Successful, Reality

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• Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person or circumstance. ... violence is perpetrated by a small subset of people with favorable views of themselves. ... Viewed in this light, the societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

  Roy Baumeister

  Self Esteem, Light, Views

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• It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it's not their problem, it's our problem. We need magazines like this one to keep talking about the issue. And know that we women in Congress are with you 100 percent.

  Juanita Millender-McDonald

  Speaks Out, Talking, Issues

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• Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

  Robert Musil

  Army, People, World

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• The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Passion, Causes, Misery

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• I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Kids, Opportunity, Thinking

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• We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

  Layne Staley

  Kids, Eye, Shoes

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• The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

  Chris Hedges

  Language, Speak, Violent

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• The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Struggle, Loss

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.134, PublicAffairs

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• As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Thinking, Long

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.180, PublicAffairs

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• Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Eternity

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.134, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

  May Sarton

  Dark, Age, Walks

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

  David Cronenberg

  Sex, Thinking, Mainstream

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• Who has not hoped
  To outrage an enemy's dignity?
  Who has not been swept
  By the wish to hurt?
  And who has not thought that the impersonal world
  Deserves no better than to be destroyed
  By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?

  Jacob Bronowski

  Hurt, Enemy, Wish

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• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Society, Events

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• God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Together, Done, Length

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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