Violent Quotes - Page 36

• People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so that strikes were always this ascetic refusal rather than open warfare with private or national military forces, where many, many people died so as to have some possibility of a decent work life, affordable housing, protections - the most practical goals we can imagine.

  Joshua Clover

  Military, People, Goal

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• Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.

  Myriam Gurba

  Joy, Eating Disorder, Conflict

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• The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Lust, Literature, Firsts

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.156

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• To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

  Alfred Adler

  Powerful, Mean, Emotional

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• Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, War, Fighting

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show" by Karen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

  Michael Badnarik

  Humor, Marijuana Prohibition, Alcohol

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• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

  Albert Bandura

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

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• I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

  Lester Bangs

  Hands, Schizophrenic

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

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• God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Men, World

  "The prayer of Pope Benedict XVI at Ground Zero". www.catholicworldreport.com. September 11, 2015.

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• The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

  Tony Blair

  Lying, Violent Acts, Purpose

  Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Media, Patterns

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• We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

  James Lee Burke

  Country, War, People

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• Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

  George W. Bush

  War, America, Justice

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Games, Buttons, Fighter

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• No violent extreme endures.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Violence, Endure, Extremes

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• Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

  Jim Carrey

  Night, People, Trying

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• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Artist, Sometimes

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• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Campus

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• Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one's system for at least three days in order to perform a 'cleanse.'

  Sloane Crosley

  Order, Vegetables, Three

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• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  Park Chan-wook

  Real, Violent Films, Because I Can

  "Shock horror! Park Chan-Wook is refreshingly normal". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.

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• But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Kissing, Thinking, Stuff

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". IndieLondon interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Character, Causes

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard, ch. 1, 1916.

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• I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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• I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

  Eva Gabrielsson

  Believe, People, Vengeance

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