“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.” ThinkingForceForgetOpinionIssuesViolenceWorstPaidContraryNakedFactorsCynicismIdealismWishful ThinkingReferee Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.” PeopleIfsGivingFeelsStatesPlayForcePowerIssuesViolenceComfortDrawsCloudsRefuseDistinctionElephantsComfortingRabbits Author:Kenneth Kaunda
“I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.” MenIssuesViolencePercentUnderstoodHonestlyViolence Against Women Author:Eve Ensler
“I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality.” PeopleThinkingChildrenShowsChoicesWatchesIssuesViolenceTelevisionAmountHonestlyBrandsDirtyDestructiveDisagreeCensorshipMentalityGrotesquePersonal Choice Author:Seth Rogen
“Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.” MenChildrenDealsIssuesViolenceLet MeFunctionKillingScaryAidsTeenagerBostonBluntTransmissionPromiscuityAfrican Women Author:Eugene Rivers
“Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.” IfsWayTryingSocialDealsIssuesViolenceDramaConflictAvoidingSocial IssuesDrama Life Author:Michael Haneke
“The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.” IfsLooksHas BeensAbleNumbersIssuesViolenceGunTerrorismResolveGun ViolenceDistressing Author:Barack Obama
“It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.” PeopleWarPoliticsJusticeDemocracyIssuesClearViolenceSecurityPolicyEthicsHuman RightsIdeologyStabilityForeign PolicyWearyNational SecurityAssad Author:Nancy Pelosi
“There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.” PeopleLifeLongHelpingStoriesEyeLostTermIssuesViolenceGunLong TermGun ViolencePersonal Issues Author:Chris Murphy
“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.” WorldHumansEffortIssuesRightsViolenceCrimeDevelopmentDeserveAbuseThreatHuman RightsObstaclesGenderPersistSeriousnessViolationGender EqualitySystematicViolence Against WomenViolation Of Human Rights Author:Ban Ki-moon
“Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.” IssuesViolenceBoundsSooner Or LaterExhaustion Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can go around saying they're all so violent, just throw them in jail, this is an underclass, what can you do? You can create fear. The issue of violence is very suitable for a repressive society. Then you can have more legislation, more police, more laws to fight crime, when all you need to do is to encourage people in a different way.” PeopleIfsMenWayNeedsWellsDifferentLawYoungFightingIssuesViolenceCrimeMen And WomenPoliceAngryViolentDifferent WaysYoung ManJailEducateLegislationSuitable Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.” TryingYearsHas BeensProblemRunningDifficultCommunityDealsStruggleIssuesViolenceGenerationsSuicideMedicalStolenPreventionAboriginalFamily RelationshipHealth ServicesMedical Problems Author:Malcolm Fraser
“We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.” MadeIssuesViolenceExtraordinaryViolence Against WomenAbnormal Author:Eve Ensler
“Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.” ThinkingNeedsShouldWritingWellsIdeasGovernmentWould BeAbleJobsPoliticalSocialIssuesOur LivesViolenceCorruptionColourNot InterestedPakistanSocial Issues Author:Fatima Bhutto
“Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.” TryingIssuesViolence Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.” MeanLongCountryGovernmentPastProcessGoalStepsPrinciplesIssuesRecordsViolenceVoteCorruptionDecadesWelfareConcreteEvasion Author:Ayn Rand
“I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.” PeopleFeelsMeanImportantTogetherUsedPresidentIssuesViolencePolicyPositionDiseaseHighestGunCongressPrioritiesBullyEpidemicsPublic HealthAdvocatingPulpitGun ViolenceHealth Issues Author:Joycelyn Elders
“Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are not headline-grabbing massacres. They`re more private, more intimate, and perhaps in that way, even more horrifying. Domestic violence, make no mistake, domestic violence is a gun issue.” WayYearsMistakeIssuesViolenceInvolvedConversationMassGunShootingIntimateOfficersDomestic ViolenceIncidentsHeadlinesProfileGun ViolenceMassacresGrabbingHigh ProfileMass Shootings Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“There`s three sort of fundamental things that happen when someone`s suffering from these issues [post-traumatic stress disorder ]. First, they get intrusive thoughts.The second issue is you become startled quickly.And the third key point is it`s avoidance.Those are the three sort of pillar fundamentals of what we consider post-traumatic stress, not violence against someone who`s close to you. There`s just a huge misunderstanding.” FirstsHappensSufferingThreeIssuesViolenceHugeKeysThirdsStressFundamentalsPostsDisorderMisunderstandingAvoidancePillarsPost Traumatic Stress Disorder Author:Jon Soltz
“Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.” MenKindBigsHappensSpeakIssuesViolenceThings HappenOur TimeAddressesInterventionAtrocitiesViolence Against WomenInhumanityInhumanity To Man Author:Angelina Jolie
“I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what we`ve - the violence that we have seen on our cell phones and our TV sets over the last couple of years. I think Black Lives Matter has helped to force these issues. Women like Sabrina Fulton. We`re having a different conversation in this country right now about race and what it means to really understand your experience is and my experience is.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanDifferentCountryMatterLastsForceBlackRaceIssuesViolenceChangedTvsCoupleRight NowConversationPhonesCellsBarackPresidencyBlack Lives MatterCell PhoneBlack LivesSabrina Author:Killer Mike
“Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.” PeopleWellsIssuesViolenceStructureIll Author:Ian MacKaye
“You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever the issue. I'm really trying hard with you - and others - to have a respectful discussion, debate about these issues.” KnowsTryingHardGoalIssuesViolenceRacismGunDebateDiscussionConvinceRespectfulHomophobiaGun ViolenceTrying Hard Author:Steven Petrow
“Nobody was talking about illegal immigration when Donald Trump entered this campaign. He was attacked from day one for putting the whole issue of the violence that is derived from certain individuals that come into this country illegally on the table. . . He is hearing from all sides. But I promise you, he is a decisive leader. He will stand on the principles that have underpinned his commitment to end illegal immigration in this country. And that's what people will learn more about in the days ahead.” PeopleEndsCountryWholeCertainIndividualSidesTalkingLeaderPrinciplesIssuesViolenceTrumpPromiseCommitmentTablesHearingCampaignsImmigrationIllegalI PromiseIllegal Immigration Author:Mike Pence
“I see a huge, huge divide between the people who are facing the most barriers and violence and the kinds of stories being told in mainstream American politics. The issues that I think most about - how many people's lives are being affected by prisons and policing, how many people's lives are being affected by immigration enforcement and deportation - those stories aren't being touched, let alone told, in mainstream politics.” PeopleThinkingKindStoriesIssuesViolenceHugePrisonImmigrationTouchedBarriersAffectedDividesMainstreamEnforcementAmerican PoliticsDeportation Author:Grace Dunham
“I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore. All the issues of land ownership, development resources, poverty, alcoholism and violence, all these things.” ThinkingWayLongHas BeensRunningPovertyIssuesViolenceLandDevelopmentResourcesIrelandOwnershipScotlandAlcoholismSectarianismNorthern Ireland Author:Irvine Welsh
“On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.” MenNeedsKindStillsDesireSexSidesRolesIssuesViolenceConditionsHavensHonestyConversationHappeningsFemaleIndependenceMalesGenderTraditionalVulnerabilityAggressionGender RolesAurasSusceptibilityVacillationAggression And Violence Author:Laura Kipnis
“Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.” HumanityViewsIssuesViolenceThreatCriminalsIsisStrategicNuisance Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski