Violence Quotes - Page 9

• Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Religious, Spring

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The biggest challenge is to convince a woman that it's not her fault. My daughter is 25; my stepdaughter is 22. As a mother, I want them to know that if a boyfriend is abusive, you cannot ignore it ?- 'Oh, he's been drinking,' or 'He had a bad day.' There is no excuse for a man hitting a woman. Ever.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Mother, Daughter, Drinking

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• Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Domestic Violence, Needs

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• This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistably propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.

  Walter Benjamin

  Angel, Past, Wings

  "Theses on the Philosophy of History". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1955.

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• From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

  Simon Schama

  Challenges, Revolution, Facts

  Simon Schama (2004). “Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution”, p.728, Penguin UK

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• All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.

  Rob Jackson

  Domestic Violence, Safe, Sacred

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• But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

  Terry Crews

  Thinking, Men, Evil

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• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pride, Political, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.312, Broadview Press

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• A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Smart, Believe, Wife

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• Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

  Peter Gabriel

  Eye, Responsibility, Voice

  "Peter Gabriel supporting Amnesty during South America tour". Press Release, www.amnesty.org.uk. November 16, 2011.

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• When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.

  Chelsea Martin

  Dad, Father, Thinking

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• Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

  Steven Pinker

  Self Esteem, School, Kids

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.560, Penguin

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• They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Domestic Violence, Demand, Persons

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.353, Penguin

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• Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

  Laura Davies

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Survivor

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• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Survival, Tools

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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• The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.

  Herbert Hoover

  Peace, Future, Mean

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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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• 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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• Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

  Bob Riley

  Justice, Effort, Domestic Violence

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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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• I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  War, Long, People

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

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• Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Hurt, Real, Men

  "28 Famous Men Who Prove You Don’t Need To Be A Woman To Be A Feminist" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2014.

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• Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evil, Political, Sides

  "The Atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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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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