Quotes with violence

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  • Afrika Bambaataa There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Louise Erdrich There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
    (2012)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Dedman There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bell Hooks There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Angela Davis There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Buddha They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Virgil They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Leonard Bernstein This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • George Orwell Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bob Schaffer Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Emily Brontë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Leon Trotsky Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Carrie P. Meek Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Anthony Burgess Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Cate Blanchett Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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