Injury And Violence Quotes

#1. The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Edward Coke

#2. To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

Ted Nugent

#3. Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. It is not violence that best overcomes hate
nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

Widad Akreyi

#6. Death, displacement and injury caused by conflicts constitute one of the most devastating epidemics of our age.

Widad Akreyi

#7. None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful ... it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury ... we repay your hatred with kindness.

Cyprian

#8. In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Boethius

#9. Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.

Jim Rohn

#11. In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported, "Studies of the Surgeon General's office reveal that domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of fifteen and forty-four, more common than automobile accidents, muggings, and cancer deaths combined.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.

Kaira Rouda

#13. Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Lucretius

#14. Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

Judith Butler

#15. It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.

Hal Elrod

#16. Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

Myrtle Reed

#17. In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

Pele

#18. That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.

Ed Markey

#19. Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.

Robert Kurson