- 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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- Nov 07, 2020
Diminishing violence is a goal everyone can support, and I look forward to participating in the debate when specific proposals come before the House.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other, the 'them,' to treat that group horribly is made much easier.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.
- Nov 07, 2020
Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.
- Nov 07, 2020
Abortion is the ultimate violence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
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- Nov 07, 2020