Violence Quotes - Page 8

• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Gun, Chinese Revolution

  Speech at sixth plenary session of Central Committee, Communist Party, Yan'an, China, 6 Nov. 1938

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• I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.

  Harry Reid

  War, Believe, Iraq

  "On the Hill: A 'Lost' War, and Gonzales Advised to Resign". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. April 20, 2007.

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• These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.

  George Q. Cannon

  God, Nature, Animal

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• You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

  Anthony Eden

  Peace, May, Way

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

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• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

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

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• Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, May, Sanctions

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations", ("Points of Rebellion"), pp. 88-89, 1989.

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• I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  Regret, Ideas, Domestic Violence

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• The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

  Brendan Behan

  Peace, War, Novelists

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• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Mean

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, People, Progress

  "Who Is Nelson Mandela? A Reader’s Digest Exclusive Interview". Interview with Caitlin O'Connell, www.rd.com. 2005.

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• The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Opportunity, Order, Rights

  "De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 365". Judicial opinion, 1937.

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• In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Hate, People

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

  Tim McGraw

  Men, Domestic Violence, He Man

  "Tim McGraw Standing Up Against Violence", www.nashville.com.

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• You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Eye, Boys

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• What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

  Robert Kennedy

  Country, Compassion, White

  Robert F. Kennedy (2004). “The Gospel According to RFK: Why it Matters Now”

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• The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Redneck, Southern, Irony

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• I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.

  Banksy

  Believe, Don't Believe

  "Banksy Was Here" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Endure, Built

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• Violence multiplies violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Suffering, Happens, Knows

  "If Only We Would Listen". Interview with Alicia von Stamwitz, www.thesunmagazine.org. November 2012.

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• Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

  Glenn Beck

  Real, Stupid, Coward

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• It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

  Julie Powell

  Broken Heart, Two, Together

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• I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't see the point of using violence to oppose violence, but many people would and the Brotherhood know that. For this reason they want an unarmed population. Adolph Hitler introduced gun laws shortly before he began to transport people to his concentration camps.

  David Icke

  Thinking, Gun, Law

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  People, Movement, Terrorism

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