Violence Quotes

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
Patricia Ireland

Family, Nature, Women

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
Patricia Ireland

Women, Important, Law

The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
Patricia Ireland

Money, Women, Important

I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
Patricia Ireland

Health, Women, Care

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
Rowan Williams

Judge, Person, Attention

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
Clare Short

Suffering, Rest, Iraq

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
Joe Slovo

Crisis, Enemy, Changes

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.
Burt Ward

Bad, Kids, Guys

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
Walid Jumblatt

Work, Soldiers, Clothes

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
James Purefoy

Cool, Sexy, Human

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Ida B. Wells

Victory, Soon, White

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
Alexei Navalny

Appeal, Aggression

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
Rob Bell

Peace, Victory, Bring

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
Mahmoud Abbas

Today, Against, Beginning

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
Mahmoud Abbas

Rejection, Between, State

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.
Woody Harrelson

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
Katherine Dunn

Women, Men, Society

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Katherine Dunn

Struggle, Forget, Human

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
Scott Nearing

War, Another, Group

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Hatred, Iraq, Terror

I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
Callan McAuliffe

Mean, Lazy, Pretty

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston

Violent, Refuge

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.
Jan Schakowsky

Saying, Problem, Iraq

We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.
David Dinkins

Said, Whole, Times

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
Bo Derek

Sex, Nothing, Terrible

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
Bo Derek

Else, Goes, Pictures

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
Linda Chavez

Human, Rights, Worst

Americans love to read about violence.
Bernadine Dohrn

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.
Pia Zadora

Movies, Understand, Kinds

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.
Richard Holbrooke

Life, Society, Political

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