Violence Quotes — Page 37

Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.”

Violence Training Arms

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.”

Want Use Violence

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.”

Order Blow Violence

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.”

Violence Slavery Violent

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Kenny Smith

Basketball Player

“If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.”

Philosophy Violence Storm

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?”

Violence Identity Constitution

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.”

Culture Violence Violent

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.”

Way Done Violence

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.”

Years Violence Washington Dc

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Lincoln Chafee

Politician

“I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.”

Violence Playing Games Sexism

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Jane Goodall

Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist

“But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.”

Mean War Violence

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.”

Hate Love Is Violence

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