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" Quotes and Sayings About violence

I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Illusion Property Defend Violence
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan

Black Label Violence Pure
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Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

First Midst Destroying Prevent
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The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Employment Essential First Perpetually
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The decisive means for politics is violence.

Decisive Means Politics Violence
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Change Childhood Fact Father
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Art Central Fact Father
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We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

Believe Black Inflicted Never
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Advocate Alcohol Always Anyone
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
First Refuge Violence Violent
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Against Biological Case Culture
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Almost Been Development Even
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Ability Become Control Counterproductive
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

American Attack Cannot Chinese
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When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.

Attracted Before Difficulties Hopeful
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Beings Ethics Evolution Goal
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Defeat Non-Violence Thing Such
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The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.

America Burdens Change Fail
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Association Government Men Rest
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Consists Death Forcing Others
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Able Failing Own Restrain
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Accomplish Act Constrain Enemy
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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Cuts Heals Sword Man
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

America Any Cradle Domestic
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Absorb Education Effects Expression
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Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

Every Know Many More
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Make Open People Powerless
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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Act Disgrace Every Individual
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

Another Credibility Find Had
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Able Act Am Anything
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Acquiesce Consent Control Deployed
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Because they can’t attack our record, they accuse me falsely of ethnic jingoes; they accuse me falsely of religious fundamentalism. Because they cannot attack our record, they accuse us falsely of calling for election violence – when we have only insisted on peace. Even as Head of State, we never imposed Sharia.

Attack Record Accuse Ethnic
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Achieved Alienation Beings Destiny
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Acceptance Adjustment Age Atom
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Violence is my last option.

Last Option Violence
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I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.
Initiate Violence
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When soul is neglected, it doesn't just go away; it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, and loss of meaning.

Soul
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You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Bully Frequency High Home
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
Dilemma Hate Kind Violence
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Nothing good ever comes of violence

Nothing Good Ever Comes
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

Addressing Finger Interested Movies
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Bound Disregard Fair Fair Play
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Because Beds Behalf Men
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Nonviolence Is Fine Long
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.

I Don't Even Call
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