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“There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.”

“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.”

Years Real Happens Eye America Born Known Violence Risk Strange Died Twenties Things Happen Latin Coward Latin America

Author:Roberto Bolano

“Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves.”

Way May Long Doe Problem Pleasure Violence Risk Elements Regard Entertainment Appetite Acceptable Viewers Exposure Tolerable Victimization Dealing With Problems

Author:Sissela Bok

“In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.”

World Girl Roles Greater Violence Risk Expectations Aspect Gender Aids Vulnerable Exploitation Hiv Gender Roles Infection Hiv Aids

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.”

Whole Race Violence Risk Thousand Emasculation

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.”

People Men Faces Violence Risk Streets Danger Particular Gender Enormous Shelter Homeless Exposure Trans Harassment Inaccessible

Author:Dean Spade

“This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.”

Men World Mind Violence Risk Becoming Achievement Missions Every Man Bores Goodwill Repetitive

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“The controversy over Russian gas deliveries shines a glaring spotlight on the risks involved in this industry. In an energy NATO, EU and NATO member states would guarantee one another assistance in obtaining energy, in any form, but without violence. Of course, we need an additional pipeline system for this purpose.”

Needs States Form Purpose Courses Energy Violence Risk Industry Involved Members Shining Guarantees Gas Assistance Controversy Delivery Spotlight Nato Obtaining Pipeline

Author:Lech Kaczynski

“My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I don't care. I see myself as the dean of American paparazzi.”

Sometimes Care Jobs Violence Risk Court Threat Don't Care I Don't Care Folly Thick Humiliation Ridicule Occasional Dean Paparazzi

Book:Offguard: A Paparazzo Look at the Beautiful People

Source: Offguard: A Paparazzo Look at the Beautiful People

“LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.”

Faces Violence Risk Youth Higher Lgbt Rejected Homelessness

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“According to the CDC, more than one in three women and one in four men in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. It is a widespread public health problem, and every year 1,600 women and 700 men are killed by their intimate partners. One of the biggest risk factors that domestic violence will become fatal is the presence of a gun.”

Men Years Has Beens States Problem Three United United States Four Violence Risk Gun Victim Partners Factors Intimate Domestic Violence Public Health Health Problems

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.”

People Given Answers Clear Violence Risk Position Meetings Chicago Mechanism Conferences

Author:Roger Lewin

“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