Perpetrated Against Quotes

#1. It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

John Conyers

#2. All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

Catharine MacKinnon

#3. The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

Barack Obama

#4. Existence and life break people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time.

David Foster Wallace

#5. Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buildings. And we should remember that. The crimes against humanity were perpetrated by people who were Arab Muslims.

Robert Fisk

#6. Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

Charlize Theron

#7. Words are the small change of thought.

Jules Renard

#8. A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water ... and when it comes down to get that water that's when you strike.

Kimbo Slice

#9. When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

Carson Daly

#10. American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#11. People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

Ann Aguirre

#12. We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims?

Robert F. Kennedy

#13. Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

John Lennon

#14. Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.
We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.
It is laughter.

Vera Nazarian

#15. One of the things I love about directing is I love actors, because no matter how complex they are, once you get down to working and talking to them and the toughest guy will want you to open them up and he wants to show you stuff he was afraid to show anybody before.

James Brolin

#16. A great destiny needs a generous diet ... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

Christian Nestell Bovee

#17. The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#18. The life we're given is on a thread, so wear it well.

Benny Bellamacina

#19. God does not remove us from all harm; He uses harm to move us close to Him.

Dillon Burroughs

#20. Words don't hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Neal Shusterman