- Disaster
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- 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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- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
- Minimal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe absolutely that words must be treated as material weapons, every invective or threat as violence and aggression.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
- Excess
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
- Ethos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020