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  • Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.

    Forever   Age   Violence  
  • Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

  • Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself.

    "John Robbins Interviews Marianne Williamson". foodrevolution.org. January 01, 2013.
  • Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

  • War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

    Peace   War   Limits  
    "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.
  • Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

    Reflection   Worry   Body  
  • A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

    James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.390, Open Road Media
  • I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

    "Set Visit: Total Recall!". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 12, 2012.
  • There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com
  • I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  • Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

    Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster
  • A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

    Life   Pain   War  
  • The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.

    Gun   Law   Stronger  
    "Connecticut school shooting reignites gun control debate". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2012.
  • Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What I want to see in America is that if you hurt a human being and you bring pain in their life, that's all we need to know. If you did it illegally, you should be prosecuted.

    Hurt   Pain   Government  
    "Representative Lindsey Graham: George W. Bush’s record in Texas". www.cnn.com. October 25, 2000.
  • It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

    Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “Rodin and Other Prose Pieces”
  • An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

    "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.
  • A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

    "Late-term abortion ban ruled unconstitutional". www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.
  • I was shocked [of Sarah Palin ], because beating up, you know, your girlfriend, your spouse, or acts of violence aren`t one of the core symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Violence does even justice unjustly.

    Justice   Doe   Violence  
    Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.20
  • One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

    Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.156, Oneworld Publications
  • Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

    Self   Violence   Compare  
    Twitter post from Sep 2, 2012
  • You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

  • I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
  • What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

    Zoos   Rome   Violence  
  • It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only to anti-state acts of violence. The failure to include terrorism as a distinct crime was due to the inability to agree upon its proper definition.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty

  • First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul Haq. No one demanded the blasphemy law in Pakistan. But he wanted to give protection to his undemocratic rule, dictatorship, by using religion. So Pakistan came into being in 1947, and from 1947 until 1986 no case against any minorities was registered under the protection of the blasphemy law. Nobody from minorities was killed and no act of violence happened [against them].

    Military   Law   Giving  
    Source: www.christianpost.com
  • Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

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