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Letter "V" » Violence
«They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever.»
Author: Lucinda Franks
| About:
America and Americans,
Violence
| Keywords:
cranky, getaway, getaways, giddy, moved to
«The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Violence,
War
| Keywords:
Art of War, get at, strike hard, The Art of War
«The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.»
«The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.»
Author: Joan Baez
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
flop, flopped, flopping, Flops, organization, The Organization
«They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.»
«The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).»
«These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Abortion,
Love,
Murder,
Violence
| Keywords:
abortion, and elsewhere, concerns, deliberate, destroyer, elsewhere, India, mothers, orphan, orphaned, pregnant, The Destroyers
«There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Force,
Spirit,
Violence
| Keywords:
Between Two Worlds, conquered, forces, in the long run, long run, spirit world, sword, The Long, The Long Run, The Spirit, The Sword
«The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitat»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Government,
Peace,
Violence
| Keywords:
green light, interpreted, non violent, peacefulness, policies, refusal, resort, resort to
«The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Relationships,
Violence
| Keywords:
allay, allayed, allaying, animosities, calamities, duration
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