Violent Quotes - Page 29

• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  Barack Obama

  Years, America, President

  "Obama slams Trump speech: Can't make decisions based on fear" by Jordan Fabian, thehill.com. July 22, 2016.

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• [Donald] Trump has been saying that on, day one, the violent undocumented immigrants will be - will leave the country. But what about the rest? What happens to the other 11 or so million, however many there are?

  Jake Tapper

  Country, Trump, Undocumented Immigrants

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I get that that the violent illegal immigrants will be removed from the country. But what I am not hearing and I am wondering, for people out there - and, look, it’s not just the liberal media, right? It’s also conservatives. It’s Rush Limbaugh. It’s Governor Sarah Palin. It’s other people who want Donald Trump to win who are saying, wow, it sounds like he is really backing away from this deportation force…

  Jake Tapper

  Country, Winning, Media

  "Trump team dodges and ducks". www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the United States. Including large numbers of violent criminals, they won't take them back.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Numbers, People

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them into your communities.

  Donald Trump

  Home, Law, Community

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• The result [of Hillary Clinton policy] will be millions more illegal immigrants; thousands of more violent, horrible crimes; and total chaos and lawlessness. That's what's going to happen, as sure as you're standing there.

  Donald Trump

  Lawlessness, Chaos, Crime

  Source: time.com

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• Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.

  Vera Nazarian

  Passion, Long, Progress

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Philosophy, Men, Law

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• I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

  Neil Young

  Jesus, White, America

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• The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Self, Renewable Resources

  E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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• Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Drug, Mankind

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• These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America - we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us.

  Frank Gaffney

  Islamic, America, Goal

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• So "Grand Theft Auto," for those who don't know, is the video game series where players pretend to drive cars around these virtual cities, getting points for winning street races and killing people and generally creating mayhem. So, of course, we should make the robots practice driving in a violent, lawless dystopia.

  Peter Sagal

  Winning, Player, Race

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.

  Jon Shenk

  Violent Acts, Two, Blame

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think we're in a 1970s-level moment of social transition and they're always full of upheaval. As violent and deranged as we can be to each other and to other species, we've got nothing on tsunamis, hurricanes or tornadoes.

  Eden Robinson

  Thinking, Transition, Upheaval

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

  Charlie Pierce

  Greedy, Reckless, American Life

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Independence, Democracy, Action

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Community, Half

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

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• I mean, our disaster in Libya also unleashed enormous amounts of armaments. We are the world's leading arms dealer, arming all sides everywhere. And have we made the Middle East a more secure place? We're only making it more desperate, more catastrophic and more violent.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, World, Arms

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Law, Effort

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com.

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• We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

  Dale Jamieson

  Restless, Planets, Universe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Want, Resources

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, War, Holocaust

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?

  Jane Goodall

  Two, Sides, Passionate

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

  Karin Slaughter

  Thinking, Guy, Language

  Source: www.avclub.com

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