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When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

Quotes by Chris Smith

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

Quotes by Chirlane McCray

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

Quotes by Chloe Grace Moretz

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Quotes by Charlotte Bunch

It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.

Quotes by Charles T. Canady

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Quotes by Charles M. Blow

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.

Quotes by Charles B. Rangel

In order that punishment should not be an act of violence perpetrated by one or many upon a private citizen, it is essential that it should be public, speedy, necessary, the minimum possible in the given circumstances, proportionate to the crime, and determined by the law.

Quotes by Cesare Beccaria

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Quotes by Cesar Chavez

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

Quotes by Catharine MacKinnon

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

Quotes by Cat Stevens

Our common goal is to keep Hong Kong from chaos, severe polarisation, and violence.

Quotes by Carrie Lam

Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

Quotes by Carol Berg

I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.

Quotes by Carles Puigdemont

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

Quotes by Caprice Bourret

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

Quotes by Cameron Diaz

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

Quotes by Burt Ward

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Quotes by Brian Aldiss

There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.

Quotes by Brad Schneider

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

Quotes by Brad Holland

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

Quotes by Boris Trajkovski

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

Quotes by Bobby Farrelly

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

Quotes by Bob Schaffer

As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

Quotes by Bob McNair

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

Quotes by Blase J. Cupich

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

Quotes by Bo Derek

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

Quotes by Bo Derek

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Quotes by Bill James

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

Quotes by Bill Dedman

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

Quotes by Bill Dedman

History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

Quotes by Bill Foster

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

Quotes by Big Freedia

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

Quotes by Bernice King

Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.

Quotes by Bernice King

Americans love to read about violence.

Quotes by Bernadine Dohrn

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

Quotes by Benjamin Netanyahu

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Quotes by bell hooks

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

Quotes by Bella Abzug

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Quotes by Barack Obama

Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.

Quotes by Ban Ki-moon

Justice can help reduce sexual violence: bringing to justice those soldiers responsible for sexual violence discourages other soldiers from committing such crimes.

Quotes by Augustin Matata Ponyo

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

Violence does not contribute to anything.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

India has a consistent and well-known position on terrorism. We oppose all acts of terrorism, wherever they occur. We have repeatedly said that no cause can justify violence and destruction, particularly aimed at civilians.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.

Quotes by Asma Jahangir

Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.

Quotes by Ash Sarkar

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.

Quotes by Asha Bhosle

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Quotes by Ariel Gore

The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.

Quotes by Ari Fleischer

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.

Quotes by Anurag Kashyap

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

Quotes by Antonio Guterres

There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.

Quotes by Antonio Guterres

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

Quotes by Anthony Zinni

When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.

Quotes by Antoine Fuqua

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Quotes by Anthony Eden

President Barack Obama cried during his announcement of new executive actions designed to curb gun violence in the United States by restricting the access to firearms of those who present a clear danger to themselves or others and improving access to mental health services for those in need.

Quotes by Anthea Butler

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.

Quotes by Anne-Marie Duff

The fantastic thing about 'Jasper Jones' is that although it's set in 1969, the themes are still so topical. We're still struggling with racism and sexism and domestic violence and abuse.

Quotes by Angourie Rice

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

Quotes by Andy Ngo

My coverage of Antifa has been critical: not just critical of the hooliganism and the street violence because violence, of course, is easy to condemn. I am critical of the underlying ideology as well.

Quotes by Andy Ngo

At an Antifa event meant to resist 'fascist violence,' I - a gay journalist of color - was beaten so badly that I was hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage.

Quotes by Andy Ngo

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Quotes by Andrew Young

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Quotes by Andrea Dworkin

Regardless of how deplorable Trump is, using violence and physical attacks against his supporters is unacceptable and grossly counterproductive.

Quotes by Ana Kasparian

It doesn't take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too.

Quotes by Amy Klobuchar

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.

Quotes by Amitava Kumar

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

Quotes by Amos Oz

Tackling violence on our streets is a complex problem, and we need not only all parties, but whole communities to come together to tackle it.

Quotes by Amber Rudd

We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.

Quotes by Amber Rudd

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Quotes by Alva Myrdal

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Quotes by Alice Walker

Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.

Quotes by Alicia Garza

The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.

Quotes by Alicia Garza

How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.

Quotes by Alicia Garza

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

Quotes by Alice McDermott

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

Quotes by Alexandre Aja

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

Quotes by Alexei Navalny

You can't change the system through violence.

Quotes by Alex Cox

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.

Quotes by Alessandro Michele

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Quotes by Alberto Fujimori

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

Quotes by Alcee Hastings

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Albert Camus

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Albert Camus

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Quotes by Alan Brien

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects.

Quotes by Ahmet Davutoglu

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Quotes by Ahmet Necdet Sezner

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

Quotes by Ahmet Necdet Sezner

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

Quotes by Afrika Bambaataa

I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.

Quotes by Adriana Trigiani

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.

Quotes by Adrienne Rich

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