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“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.”

Thinking Force Forget Opinion Issues Violence Worst Paid Contrary Naked Factors Cynicism Idealism Wishful Thinking Referee

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.”

Giving Wells Facts Stories Seems Action Film Stuff Forget Violence Car Couple Scene Essentials Hollywood Give Me Structure Shooting Broads Fads Action Films

Author:Clint Eastwood

“There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle.Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.”

Knows Way Forget Enemy Struggle Violence Century Victory Capable Pursuit Hardship Betray Coercion Bloodshed

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”

World Trying Forget Poor Silence Rich Violence Events Conflict Painful Celebrate Division Gaps Congo Rich And Poor Inexplicable Outburst

Book:King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Source: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

“For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.”

“All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.”

Knows Men Believe Heart Real Facts Difficult Forget Violence Equal Illusion Regard Excellence Vanity Great Men Excess Forget Him

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.”

Stars Born Forget Violence Angry Revenge Fragile Retribution Lest We Forget

Author:Sting

“I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.”

People Thinking Sometimes Action Forget Liberty Taken Violence Citizens Protect Blow Favour Civil Liberties Physical Violence

Author:John Howard

“Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.”

“You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.”

Suffering Heaven Forget Violence Kingdoms Kingdom Of Heaven

Book:James Joyce The Dover Reader

Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader

“I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this part is not hype. After a while particularly in the case of Sybrina Fulton, they've become celebrities and people forget that they've become celebrities because of the death, the murder of their child. So I wanted people to see the burning desire for these women to live their child's legacy, to not let their child have died in vain, so they're fighting to stop the violence.”

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Author:Ed Gordon

“Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football is just too violent and too damaging to the economically vulnerable communities in this country. And it normalizes violence and fosters intolerance, etc." I mean: that would be awesome.”

Ifs Years Mean Said Country Happens Would Be Lasts Community Forget Imagine Violence Football Grew Office Violent Vulnerable Etc Pairs Intolerance Last Year Forget It

Author:Steve Almond