Violence Quotes — Page 38

Author

“There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.”

World Different Violence

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philosopher, Speaker

“Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.”

Two Violence Conflict

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Jean Racine

Playwright, Poet

“What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?”

War Blood

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world”

World United States

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Juan Williams

Journalist

“Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.”

Cities Gun Violence

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.”

Attention Destiny Violence

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.”

Writing World Violence

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Judith Butler

Philosopher, Gender Theorist

“I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that we should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.”

Mean Struggle Violence

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Julio Frenk

Physician, Public Health Expert

“Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.”

Violence Tools Arena

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Judith Butler

Philosopher, Gender Theorist

“If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech.”

Violence Track Speech

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”

Hurt Violence Courses

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.”

Justice Violence Brotherhood

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