Top 1200 Domestic Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.

This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see it in California where more prisons are being built than colleges. It goes on and on. We see it in a trillion-dollar war budget, politics becoming an extension of war rather than vice versa. This violence is like a fog. It covers everything.

I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we can't fight violence against women without looking at economic deprivation or climate change. All these struggles are interconnected.

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.

While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel.

Shadab Khan and Fakhar Zaman have played domestic cricket but PSL gave them an identity.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.

The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies.

I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.

And in the wake of Trump's elections, there have been reports across the country of intimidation, harassment and violence against those very groups. So if Trump is serious about unifying the country, if this is a thing he wants to do, then I think he needs to immediately speak against these acts of intimidation, harassment and violence that are happening to some degree in the name of the campaign that he ran.

The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

The point is the country has got serious problems dealing with terrorism both domestic and international.

Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down.

Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.

Our country has a capacity to cater to huge demands, both domestic and overseas.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the abuser. If I am threatened with violence I report the abuser to the police. It is vital to remember that threatening violence online is just as illegal as it is offline. Know your rights and the reporting procedures of any online platform you use.

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

Iranians embraced my approach to domestic and international affairs because they saw it as long overdue.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

Domestic violent extremism is not a threat limited to any single law enforcement agency.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

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.

The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.

Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.