Acts Of Violence Quotes - Page 3

• The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

  Jodi Picoult

  Small Acts, Growth, Cost

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, War, Limits

  "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

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• All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

  Unknown

  Sex, Couple, Radical Feminism

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• This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  September 11, Violence, United States

  "Arafat Horrified by Attacks, but Thousands of Palestinians Celebrate; Rest of World Outraged", www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2001.

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• Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

  Graham Swift

  Country, Strong, Children

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

  Marc Racicot

  Judging, Decision, Abortion

  "Late-term abortion ban ruled unconstitutional". www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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• In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

  Benjamin Rush

  Kings, Father, Men

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• To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

  Primo Levi

  Men, Looks, Violence

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only to anti-state acts of violence. The failure to include terrorism as a distinct crime was due to the inability to agree upon its proper definition.

  Richard A. Falk

  Agree Upon, Definitions, Violence

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

  Noam Chomsky

  Judging, Violence, Dignity

  "Noam Chomsky criticises old friend Hugo Chávez for 'assault' on democracy" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Violence, Terrorism, Hundred

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be "Al Qaeda Operative"". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  America, Light, People

  Remarks by the President in Golden, CO, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 13, 2012.

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• First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul Haq. No one demanded the blasphemy law in Pakistan. But he wanted to give protection to his undemocratic rule, dictatorship, by using religion. So Pakistan came into being in 1947, and from 1947 until 1986 no case against any minorities was registered under the protection of the blasphemy law. Nobody from minorities was killed and no act of violence happened [against them].

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Military, Law, Giving

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.

  Christopher Titus

  Violence

  "Titus / Insanity Genetic: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil.

  Steve Chalke

  Jesus, Love You, Teaching

  "The Lost Message of Jesus". Book by Steve Chalke and Alan Mann, 2003.

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• The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Labels, Violence, Moments

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• We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

  Barack Obama

  Evil, Gun Control, Trying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Speaks Out, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

  Benjamin Crump

  Innocent Person, People, Police

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Unjust, Violence

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• 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

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What I want to see in America is that if you hurt a human being and you bring pain in their life, that's all we need to know. If you did it illegally, you should be prosecuted.

  Lindsey Graham

  Hurt, Pain, Government

  "Representative Lindsey Graham: George W. Bush’s record in Texas". www.cnn.com. October 25, 2000.

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• Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

  Pat Buchanan

  Hegemony, Cost, Soil

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