Violent Quotes - Page 25

• Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Names, Bully, Culture

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• Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Spirit, Mediocre

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• My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

  Marilyn Manson

  Father, Home, Boys

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• Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.

  David Deida

  Heart, Self, Giving

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Fall, Average, Years

  "More Weather Deaths? Wanna Bet?". www.wsj.com. May 28, 2011.

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• In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

  Lawrence Solomon

  Tornadoes, Global Warming, Cooling

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• In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.

  Steve Chalke

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• The Kingdom suffers violence and the violent take "IT" by force! I believe the Lord is requiring our worship to become more violent. Kingdoms are clashing. We, a people of God, will take the earth by forceful worship. Violent worship overcomes violence in the natural, because the atmosphere around us changes.

  Chuck Pierce

  Believe, People, Atmosphere

  "Chuck Pierce: This is NOT a Time to be Passive but to Go to War and Worship Violently!". www.elijahlist.com. August 7, 2010.

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• America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.

  Ted Cruz

  War, Islamic, America

  Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress unless there's a strong solidarity movement within the superpower that will restrain its actions. With more support within the United States, I think the Haitian efforts could have succeeded.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in what I called Orientalism. The study of the Other has a lot to do with the control and dominance of Europe and the West generally in the Islamic world. And it has persisted because it's based very, very deeply in religious roots, where Islam is seen as a kind of competitor of Christianity.

  Edward Said

  Religious, Islamic, Europe

  Source: progressive.org

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• We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West.

  Robert Fisk

  Men, Order, Boss

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?

  Dean Koontz

  Couple, Past, Years

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• People were like, "Someone who made a song like this, there has to be more to them. I'm interested in hearing how they would describe something else." So my flow has matured, my voice has matured, the content has gotten more descriptive but at the same time we still talk about a violent reality that exists in the world which is why this is a supplement to the Revolutionary series and it's not a part of it but it's the same Immortal Technique.

  Immortal Technique

  Song, Reality, Voice

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm still the same person I've always been. I can't say exactly what I'll do; I'm an excessive person. Talk about violence-----I don't do anything violent. Talk about violence, what's going on in Nicaragua? What's going on in El Salvador? That's violent. What are they doing to the planet with chemicals and acid rain? That's violent. What are people doing to each other? Raping. That's violent. I'm striking out at ac icon that has no life. There's a big difference between what has life and what doesn't. I mean. I've been a vegetarian for 16 years.

  Wendy O. Williams

  Rain, Mean, Years

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• Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Greek, Gentleman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.376

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• It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Passion, Ambition

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• Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can reach WITHIN women to fvck/construct us from the inside out. Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women's own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, even if she does not feel forced.

  Judith Levine

  Sex, Powerful, Mean

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• Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

  Donald A. Wollheim

  Human Nature, Given, Endless

  DONALD A. WOLLHEIM (1980). “THE 1980 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF”

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• Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

  Edna Ferber

  Texas, Yesterday, Alive

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Two, Giving

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• The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, United States, Action

  "Chomsky: Instead of “Illegal” Threat to Syria, U.S. Should Back Chemical Weapons Ban in All Nations". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 11, 2013.

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• I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Spiritual, Football

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• Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.

  Halford Luccock

  Religious, Jesus, Men

  "The Questing Spirit: Religion in the Literature of Our Time". Book by Halford Luccock, p. 42, 1947.

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• Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Forgiving, How To Forgive

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