Best violence & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence.”

Real Would Be Past Order Violence Achieve Security Willing Citizens Threat Painful Terrorism Compromise

Author:Ariel Sharon

“Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.”

Past Left Violence Streets Affair

Book:V.: A Novel

Source: V.: A Novel

“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.”

“Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.”

Years Has Beens Reason Shows Past Used Practice Violence Protect Normal Prison Something New Solitary Parts Of Life Protect You Confinement Solitary Confinement

Author:Wilbert Rideau

“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.”

Action Past Names Principles Violence Efficiency Detrimental

Author:Pierre Bourgault

“I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.”

People World Want Believe Done Past Hate I Believe Perfect Violence Fairs Opposites I Hate Madness Cruelty Scare Scream Confrontation Amiable A Perfect World Unkindness Affable Moodiness

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?”

“Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.”

Men Want Kind Long Past Artist Worry Violence Generations Politician Including All Kinds Preparation Tyrants Long Ago Future Generation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.”

World Past Violence Products Hollywood Movie Flavor Once Upon A Time Hyperbole

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.”

Writing Mind Doe Past Force Violence Modern Empathy Capacity Hatred Fundamentals Driving Modern Society Driving Force

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.”

Way Writing Hard Action Past Young Sides Known Violence Honest Victim Bullying Both Sides Inaction My Past Cowardly Perpetrators Vindictive

Author:Andre Dubus

“The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.”

“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 great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened in the past in other episodes to show that this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ramifications. It has repercussions. Whether it's a week from now or five years from now, you know it will play out. Nothing is ever tied up into a perfect knot.”

“We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.”

Children Self Past Social Our Lives Violence Crime Self Esteem Drug Abuse Alcohol Esteem Welfare Pregnancy Child Abuse Our Past Vaccines Dependency Premature Drug Abuse Past Failures

Author:John Vasconcellos

“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.”

Mean Long Country Government Past Process Goal Steps Principles Issues Records Violence Vote Corruption Decades Welfare Concrete Evasion

Author:Ayn Rand

“America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.”

Two Country Seems America Past Existence Accepting Violence Violent Celebrate Canada Willingness Two Countries

Author:Joseph Boyden

“Those who are living out the drama and the violence still need to live that out for their experience, while others of us have gone past that need - but we're still witnessing it from a distance. What the Pleiadians are saying is don't engage in drama that is not ours.”

Needs Stills Past Gone Violence Drama Distance

Author:Christine McCormick Day

“There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.”

Years Past Progress Violence Percent Iraq Civilians Over The Past Civilian Deaths

Author:David Petraeus

“Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.”

Looks Past Violence Repeats

Author:Robert Hass

“If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.”

People Ifs Would Be Today Past Violence Happenings Things Happen Awful Syria Stunned Sudan

Author:Bill Gates

“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.”

Years Children Country Age Past Mother Fall Growth Born Five Violence Risk Crime Disease Percent Adults Increase Primaries Wages Literacy Spurs Decrease Likelihood Later In Life Primary Education

Author:Shakira

“Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.”

Trying Firsts Ends States Facts Use Past Three United Accepting United States Violence Thirds Agree Threat Including Israel Agreement Rejects Maps Palestine Hamas Road Maps

Author:Noam Chomsky

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