Violent Quotes - Page 33

• I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

  Jordan Peele

  Commitment, Racism, Looks

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

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• I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains with the protesters. We need to preserve the element of an intellectual ambush and a physical manifestation that takes the government and the police by surprise. It has to keep re-imagining itself, because holding territory may not be something the movement will be allowed to do in a state as powerful and violent as the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the case. The overwhelming majority of people arrested in the drug war have been arrested for relatively minor, non-violent drug offenses.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, People, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.

  Michelle Alexander

  Drunk, Risk, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Significant Change, Revolution

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad for people and bad for society, but the whole notion of festival is tied up with intoxication.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Drug, Festivals

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• If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

  David Eagleman

  Two, Eight, Crime

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.167, Vintage

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• I would argue with my father [Pablo Escobar] about his violent attitude and I would tell him to stop his violent ways and to think about peace as an alternative, especially given the many problems he was having. However, he would reply almost immediately by telling me "you are forgetting that the first bomb that exploded in Colombia was an attempt against you, your sister, and your mother - I did not invent narcoterrorism, narcoterrorism was first used against my family.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Mother, Attitude, Father

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War is largely a male activity. In fact, there is some correlation [between making war and] having an excess of males in the population.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Organization, Population

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

  Barack Obama

  Average, Facts, Crime

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating some kind of violent reaction, you know. But, you know, I admire that.

  Woody Harrelson

  Creating, Inability, Strange

  Source: collider.com

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• I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Art, War, Order

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting their lives destroyed by going to prison. We need to look at mandatory minimum sentencing and give judges more flexibility when there are issues of drug abuse or addiction.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.

  Q-Tip

  Teenager, Rap, Ghetto

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Pain, Mean, Hatred

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

  Alveda King

  Justice, Victory, Movement

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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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. Look, international capital has been globalized, so Osama bin Laden is globalized. It's not surprising to find followers of bin Laden in all these countries.

  Robert Fisk

  Country, Men, Boss

  Source: progressive.org

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• The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

  Deborah Kampmeier

  Speak

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 9/11 was not an act of war. It was a criminal act. It was a simple. Criminal act by a bunch of lunatic fanatic violent people who needed to be tracked down and apprehended and tried exactly as you would with any other lunatic violent person, like we do with our own domestic terrorists, like the guy who bombed the Oklahoma federal building.

  Pierre Sprey

  War, Simple, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.

  Eve Ensler

  Country, Hurt, Thinking

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.

  Diane Abbott

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unconscious mind may be a little more distorted and violent than I am aware of.

  Roger Corman

  Thinking, Creative, Mind

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick of their violent governments fled to the water, where they built civilization on stilts. That startup society - a free city-state on the water - became so successful it dominated the Mediterranean for a thousand years.

  Joe Quirk

  Beautiful, Successful, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If Islam is so peaceful, why is everybody so damn frightened of offending them? And on the other hand, if Christianity is so violent as people like Whoopi Goldberg and others tell us, why is nobody afraid to offend Christians? People laugh at, make fun of, and mock Christians all day long with no fear whatsoever. But you so much as think anything offensive about Islam, and they descend on you and they accuse you of violating political correctness and they beg you to shut up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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