"No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent"
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"If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too."
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"We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation."
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"The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary."
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"This is not violence, this is legitimate resistance. This is our people's right to resist Israeli occupation."
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"When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence."
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"Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings."
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"I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence."
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"Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people."
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"The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing."
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"All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody."
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"The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive."
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"I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government."
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"Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness."
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"Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not."
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"Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart."
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"The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence."
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"With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation."
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"We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children."
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"Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence."
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