Violent Quotes - Page 20

• I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Silence, Honest, Not Afraid

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• We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Injured

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “Master and commander ; Post captain ; H.M.S. Surprise ; The Mauritius command”

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• When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

  Karen Armstrong

  Dream, Violence, Fantasy

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Part 1: World-renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong talks about today's religious conflicts and how the past can help" by David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. April 10, 2006.

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• The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.

  Fisher Ames

  Passion, Men, People

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.393, Burt Franklin

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• Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

  Damian Marley

  Jamaica, Way, Violence

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it is - you know, your father's violent but he loves you and that's just the way it is - later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.

  Justin Torres

  Children, Father, Love You

  "Justin Torres’ Hard-Knock Debut Novel". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. October 3, 2011.

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• When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.

  Carlos Cuaron

  Sports, Football, Drama

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Boys, Differences

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not scary people, they're just men who keep to themselves and have a hard time being social.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lonely, Hard Times, Men

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

  Margaret Drabble

  Scenery, Stimulants

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• I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.

  Dale J. Stephens

  Communication, Taken, Feedback

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• Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Silly, Men, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing

  Jean Kilbourne

  Thinking, Empathy, Abuse

  Jean Kilbourne (1999). “Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising”

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• There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

  Simon Critchley

  Religious, Disappointment, Two

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity

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• At home, Danes try to resolve their problems amicably so it's just surreal to see these violent pictures on TV. But as the prime minister, I can't be controlled by my emotions.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Home, Trying, Tvs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.

  Le1f

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.

  Cathy Hughes

  Mother, Order, Violent Acts

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• The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Expeditions, Outrun

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.121, Classic Books Company

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• If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Peaceful, Degrees

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• If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Mean, Men

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• Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Storm

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• Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Rude, Peaceful

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• States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

  Noam Chomsky

  States, Interest

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.341, AK Press

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• Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.

  Philo

  Expression, Emotion

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