Best violence & effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.”

America Term Community Effort Violence Crime Building Partnership Earnest

Author:Janet Reno

“I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.”

Believe I Believe Effort Violence Individuality Uniqueness Interfere

Author:Rajneesh

“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.”

Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

“Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.”

“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.”

“That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.”

World Should War Use Today Christian Religion Given Women Effort Violence Holy Sexuality Mythology Approved Frantic Christian Right Holy War

Author:Riane Eisler

“Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.”

“I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.”

Thinking World Way Two Moving Effort Half Violence Survival Female Moving Forward Plus Two Ways

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.”

Mean Effort Violence Negative Inevitable Abandon Nonviolence Negative Words

Book:Panchayat Raj

Source: Panchayat Raj

“The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”

“As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.”

Able Moving Political Effort Violence Grew Consequence Response Mature Projection Equilibrium Pragmatic

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.”

Way Long Has Beens Effort Attitude Opinion Struggle Violence Mets Massive Long Way Repression Regression Long Way To Go

Book:Who Rules the World?

Source: Who Rules the World?

“The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.”

Humans Values Effort Accepting Five Violence Air Essentials And Love Scripture Sincere Worthwhile Non Violence Human Values Prana Right Conduct

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models.”

People World Wells Persons Purpose Order Perfect Rooms Effort Violence Building Needed Models Ideals Communism Imperfect Nazism Ideal Society

Author:Mart Laar

“Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.”

Needs Giving Heart Self Effort Emotion Greater Violence And Love Violent Destructive Openness Rooted Self Destructive Giving And Receiving Love And Freedom

Book:Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

“There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state.”

States Actors Individual Effort Violence Groups Effects Terrorism Violent Acknowledge Accountability Civilians Violent Acts

Author:Richard A. Falk

“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.”

“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.”

“The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.”

May Matter Might Used Black Effort Attention Violence Instance Black Lives Matter Policemen Black Lives Unjustified

Author:Viggo Mortensen

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