"When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence."
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"Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture."
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"Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words."
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"I will never be by violence constrained to do anything."
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"Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD."
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"Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people."
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"Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity."
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"But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about."
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"The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy."
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"We have lived with violence far too long."
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"In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence."
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"I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese."
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"My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness."
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"I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion."
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"Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now."
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"Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence."
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"The violence in the Bible is appalling."
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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."
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"When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power."
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"Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins."
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