Acts Of Violence Quotes - Page 4

• One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

  Gloria Steinem

  Generations, Four, Violence

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.156, Oneworld Publications

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• The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

  Kathy Change

  Media, Attention, Violence

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• By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is not always easy to provide clear, consistent structure for children, but providing it often helps keep children safe and helps them grow to be responsible adults.

  Jean Illsley Clarke

  Children, Media, Average

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• Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Resistance, Violence, Were Meant To Be

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• Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Peace, People, Violence

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• The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Real, Damage Is Done, Giving

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

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• Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Violence, Christianity

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.org. August 1, 2005.

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• When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

  Laverne Cox

  Men, Violence, Trans

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• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Writing, Chinese Revolution

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

  John Dufresne

  Brother, Fate, May

  John Dufresne (2014). “No Regrets, Coyote”, p.78, Serpent's Tail

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• I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this ‘loss of face’—no matter how severe the punishment, even if it includes death.

  James Gilligan

  Loss, Punishment, Feelings

  James Gilligan (1996). “Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes”, Putnam Adult

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• A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

  Savitri Devi

  Life, Pain, War

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• Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Thinking, Bored, Three

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Loss, Animal, Desperate Situations

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• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Violence

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Angela Richards (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Successful, Men

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

  Jean Vanier

  Real, Believe, Understanding

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