- Nov 07, 2020
Violence Quotes
Naming violence in its many forms.
Two of these lines sit squarely in policy debate, one arguing that background-check rules for private firearm transfers among relatives wouldn't meaningfully reduce harm, another assessing ISIS as a real but non-central strategic threat, in the same territory as Gun quotes.
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- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like excessive violence. That's my thing. I don't like movies heavy with guns, any of that stuff, so I'm not into that stuff, but I love a psychological thriller.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
- Defeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.
- Domestic
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People at risk of 'honour'-based violence require long-term support, often years past the closure of a case, for continuing culturally-sensitive psychological support and the development of long-term protection plans.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020