"I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide."
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"I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent."
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"I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games."
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"But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time."
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"There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it."
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"Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence."
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"The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny."
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"It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence."
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"Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities."
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"I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that we should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world."
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"Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena."
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"If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech."
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"Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was."
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"What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?"
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"The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world"
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"I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence."
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"I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence"
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"Violence is not the way."
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"The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence."
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"Violence is not only impractical but immoral."
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