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Comparison is an act of violence against the self. -- Iyanla Vanzant
My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated. -- Christopher Titus
Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self. -- Iyanla Vanzant
When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence. -- Laverne Cox
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. -- James MacGregor Burns
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. -- Sigmund Freud
The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself. -- Kathy Change
A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. -- Mao Zedong
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence. -- Samuel R. Delany
If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today. -- Myriam Miedzian
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel. -- John Boehner
The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence. -- Eckhart Tolle
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. -- Oscar Wilde
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people. -- Salman Rushdie
I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning? -- Jean Vanier
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. -- Charles Krauthammer
Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. -- Mao Zedong
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live. -- Savitri Devi
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. -- bell hooks
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. -- Oscar Wilde
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. -- George Washington
...the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.... -- Joe Lieberman
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. -- Cory Doctorow
Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression! -- Pope Francis
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. -- King Hussein I
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series. -- Steve Rushin
I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone. -- Mackenzie Astin
Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free. -- Noam Chomsky
We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors. -- Barack Obama
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation. -- Wendell Berry
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence. -- Marc Racicot
Controversial daily radio host. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence. -- Michael Savage

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