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“As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.”

Ifs Long Use Used Hate Violence Mines Drug Okay Violence Against Women Bash

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!”

Ifs Men Violence Creatures Degrees Lows Violent Peaceful Degrade Non Violent

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts Mean Country Violence Healthy Sick Violent Peace Of Mind Peacefulness Civilised Non Violent Healthy Mind Violent Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.”

People Ifs Culture Interesting Violence Messages Hockey Brutality

Author:Gabe Polsky

“In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.”

Ifs Violence Trouble Fields Football Taught Aggressive And Off

Author:Troy Polamalu

“Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.”

Ifs World Made Said Facts Use Used Fighting Strong Force Violence Position Weapons British Bombs Atoms Conventional Adopted Realised Helplessness Non Violence Discarded Potency Atom Bomb

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.”

Ifs Way Humans Mean Problem Sides Goal Violence Achieve Effects Human Nature Violent Nonviolence Side Effects Achieving Your Goals

Author:Dalai Lama

“I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Real Past Film Violence Products Scene Witness Filmmaker Drivers Taxi Back In The Day Scorsese

Author:Antoine Fuqua

“The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.”

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Author:Antoine Fuqua

“Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”

Ifs Needs Soul Dies Winning Force Heaven Violence Conflict Determined Violent Kingdoms Heroic Revival Kingdom Of Heaven Revival Prayer

Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We need to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions of suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.”

Ifs Lost Violence Resorts

Author:Sean Connery

“If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.”

Source: Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable

“The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.”

Ifs Men Culture Cases Violence Violence Against Women

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.”

Ifs Kind Mean Self Form Violence Defense Inevitable Self Defense

Author:Gloria Steinem

“If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.”

People Ifs Way Two Lying Violence Groups Threat Inferiors

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.”

Ifs Believe Sometimes I Believe Wonder Violence Admire Aggression

Author:Fred Rogers

“The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required.”

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

“I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?”

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.”

“I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.”

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Author:Andrew Dominik

“If the movie [The Hunger Games] were stylized violence that was pretty and fun and cool, which is great when you go see 300 or The Matrix, it would just be out of sync with the fact that they're kids.”

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Author:Nina Jacobson

“If you see something, say something. This is more than a slogan. If you see someone turning toward violence, say something. Say something to law enforcement or to one of you in your community.”

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Author:Audie Cornish

“I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.”

Ifs Imagine Violence Effects Building Built Stones Paris Memorial Newton Register Cubes Indictment

Author:Peter Greenaway

“If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.”

Ifs Children Together Sex Violence Revenge Noise Ingredients Opera Vigorous

Author:Judith Martin

“If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife.”

Ifs Political Social Party Wife Violence Ignorance Clubs Protest Bigotry Tied Sheer Misogyny Political Parties Mafia Homophobia Enablers

Author:Bill Maher

“You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly, it can be very interesting. But, essentially, it's just a tool.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so you could still have a hard PG-13 and open up your audience. Anybody can read the graphic novel. If you're 14, you can go out and buy it, and I felt that if you're 14 you should be able to see this movie [The Loosers].”

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Author:Sylvain White

“There's no excuse for domestic violence. It sounds like a challenge. I mean, does everything have to be so black-and-white in this kindergarten country of ours? What if you come home from a long day at work and your wife has drowned two of your kids - she's about to dunk the third one. Can you run over and pop her then? Unfortunately no, there's no excuse. You're going to have to let her drown that third one.”

“Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and not violence, love and not hate, cooperation and not murder, justice and not selfishness, we have to learn how to make childhood more happy. No nobler task could be pursued by our generation.”

Ifs World Want Years Hate Justice Violence Generations Childhood Anxiety Tasks Murder Selfishness Cooperation Hostility Pursued Nursery Our Generation Competitiveness

Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.”

Ifs Way Nations Race Violence India Non Violence Torches

Book:My Picture of Free India

Source: My Picture of Free India

“If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!”

Ifs Humans Three Social Wealth Violence Transformation Checks Human History Three Things Social Transformation

Author:C. Wagner

“If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil.”

Ifs Evil Jesus Enemy Violence Teaching Love You Son Crosses Refuse Humankind Mockery Acts Of Violence Love Your Enemies

Author:Steve Chalke

“I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.”

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Author:Joycelyn Elders

“If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists kill three thousand Americans, but America isn't supposed to respond, because if we respond, they'll respond. We always hear about 'karmic retributions' and the 'cycle of violence' only after we've been hit.”

Ifs America Three Violence Thousand Terrorist Cycles Retribution Fundamentalist Cycle Of Violence Muslim Terrorists

Book:Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

Source: Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

“My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.”

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Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.”

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Author:Charles Bowden

“Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.”

Ifs Kind Real Character Body Fiction Violence Example Fit Scripts Instance Narrative Genre Encounters Minorities Norm Messy Lisbeth Salander

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.”

Ifs Men Courses Violence Blood Months Birth Shots Hearing Violent Trust Me Menstruation

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.”

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Author:Bakari Kitwana

“Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Ends Culture Silence Break Violence Wall Opposites Police Blue Decades Police Violence

Author:Hakeem Jeffries

“A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.”

People Ifs Sound Violence Example Murder Police Typical Forbidden Murderer Hysterical Police Violence

Author:Molly Crabapple

“If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.”

Ifs Stills Might Alive Violence Domestic Violence Arrested Trayvon Martin Trayvon Zimmerman

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Leaders of political parties need to keep in contact with the people; that's what it's all about. If violence were to erupt, I am fairly confident that we could control our people. Whether or not the authorities can control theirs is another matter altogether.”

People Ifs Needs Matter Political Party Leader Violence Authority Contact Political Parties

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Humans Important Stories Levels Deals Laughing Violence Calling Consequence Careful Sensitive Filmmaker Be Careful Censorship Making People Laugh

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it for everyone then people would result to violence in order to get it. Therefore we have to improve the conditions to have better human beings.”

People Ifs Humans Enough Order Human Beings Results Violence Air Conditions Access Oxygen

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.”

People Ifs America Voice Talking Violence Civilization Argument Raised Western Hopefully Britain Western Civilization People Talking

Author:John Gimlette

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