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Violence Quotes
"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more."
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"This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea."
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"If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down."
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"It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know."
5
"It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan."
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"I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance."
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"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
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"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."
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"I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence."
3
"All that violence in the world, we need to stop that."
3
"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."
3
"Why people like to be kicked and punched in the face. The game is famous as box??What's the inspiring thing?? Do you know that every punch in the head you lose a cell or cells so it's possible in the near future all boxer to be stupid. Why??Because of the punches!...But still I don't see where is the Adrenaline in this sport?? There are random punches or kickes without thinking just dicide it to do it for fun. But in games like chess there is strategy + logic!"
2
"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."
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"Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed."
2
"If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don't forget, violence makes you a low man!"
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"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
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"A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?"
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"I have known Hammy for years, he has been shot in the chest twice at point blank range with a sawn off shotgun. The other hard men must have been shocked when he got out the car he was in and chased them with his own hand gun, he has also been stabbed multiple times in prison and out on the rough tough streets of Glasgow but he is still standing."
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"It's what happens when you shoot someone, Wayne pointed out. "At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them."
1
"The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."
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"An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided."
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