Violence Quotes - Page 40

• I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.

  Leon Panetta

  Mean, Views, Levels

  "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta". "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Believe, Mean, States

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• It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, World, Violent

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• When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

  Eustace Budgell

  Men, Doe, Heat

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• I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

  James Herbert

  Hate, Writing, Horror

  "James Herbert on his daily routine, writing The Rats and how he hates violence". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 12, 2012.

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• No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Ideas, Long, Toy Guns

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• Since ... 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter it by any other way, unless they come through the narrow gate of trials and tribulations, the divine oracle rightly commands us, saying: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Lk. 13:24). Again He says, 'By your endurance you will gain your souls' (Lk. 21:19), and, 'Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of heaven' (Acts 14:22).

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Doors, Heaven

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• The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.

  Randall Wright

  Sex, Television, Today

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• Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

  Bill Cosby

  Wise, Challenges, Solve

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• There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Kindness, Children

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• Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it is small, peace is fragile. Like a baby, it needs nurturing attention. We must protect peace from violence and perversion if it is to grow. We must be strong to do this. But force, even in the name of honor, is always tragic. Instead, we must use the strength of wisdom and conscience. Only that power can nurture peace in this difficult time.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Baby, Peace, Strong

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• The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Passion, Hatred

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• I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .

  Marilyn Frye

  Men, Long, Political

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

  Charles Lyell

  Ordinary, Earth, Sides

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• Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.

  Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

  Dream, Reality, Self

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• Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

  Lucretius

  Mesh, Recoil, Commit

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1866). “De rerum natura libri sex with nołes and a translation by H. A. J. Munro: II”, p.144

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• America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, America, Space

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• I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Country, Thinking, Roots

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• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Sex, Years

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• The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

  Kim Cattrall

  Europe, Tv Shows, America

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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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• I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

  Rutger Hauer

  Running, Heart, Fighting

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• I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Kids, People

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• As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

  Dylan McDermott

  Thinking, People, World

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  Sam Shepard

  Thinking, Culture, Heritage

  "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard’s New Velocity". Interview with Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2010.

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