From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Gloria Steinem
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I don't know how much the pope and Gloria Steinem really agreed on.
TOM RODGERS Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I c...
JOANNA RUSS A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
IRINA DUNN If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjusti...
JOHN HOWARD YODER Pakistan condemns the terrorist attack.
TASNEEM ASLAM The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
JOE KLAAS I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong ...
NOAM CHOMSKY Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. I...
HILLARY CLINTON The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I think violence can never be justified.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, man...
JOHN STUART MILL I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, ther...
MEGYN KELLY The secretary condemns in the strongest possible terms today's terrorist attack and expects Chairman...
RICHARD BOUCHER If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that o...
JOHN STUART MILL We may only average three to five (tremors) a year, but each one adds a piece to the puzzle.
MICHAEL HANSEN The president condemns in the strongest possible terms the vicious terrorist attacks against innocen...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN This is a tragic case but you've made something of it, ... This court seeks to deter further terrori...
ROYCE LAMBERTH To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs t...
SOURCE UNKNOWN An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.
KAMAND KOJOURI If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one tha...
JOHN STUART MILL One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the...
NICOLAS GOMEZ DAVILA My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregna...
JODI PICOULT South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on th...
NGUYEN CAO KY Each one of us adds a little something to the offense and we mesh it together.
BRANDON TAYLOR Battles like that . . .” My voice lowered. “They look like they come down to one person or one a...
KAITLIN BEVIS Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from th...
MAYA ANGELOU There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the a...
NOAM CHOMSKY If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mank...
JOHN STUART MILL Gandhi Topi' is no longer an attire of the pacifist.
MUKESH KWATRA And it's cumulative. One individual may not do much damage, but it adds up.
ERIC MORGAN I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence ...
CARLES PUIGDEMONT Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it re...
AARON KLEIN A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though ...
DON FRASER To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
TAYLOR HANSON To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
DR. SEUSS To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
BILL WILSON To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
BILL WILSON To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
BILL WILSON Many people shift from one topic to another while conversing or from one story to another while conv...
APURVA GAGLANI The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a perso...
JODI PICOULT To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
BRANDI SNYDER To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
UNKNOWN If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along wi...
OLIVER TAMBO Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified o...
J. FINEGAN It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading te...
BILL BENNETT Emerging markets are on everybody's mind. But one must keep in mind that there is quite a diversity ...
ADRIAN NEMCEK But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then,...
SIMON GREENLEAF What we know is that from one clear case in Thailand and probably in other cases there has been clos...
GEORG PETERSEN If it stops one person from taking the next step and killing somebody else, then it will be worth it...
LAURA ADAMS specific directions for terrorist attacks continue to be issued from terrorist groups based in Syria...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Today, few terrorist organizations still employ the 'al-Qaeda model' in which individuals tr...
TOM COTTON There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there i...
CUTLER WEBSTER Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
GLORIA STEINEM My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy a...
CAMILLE PAGLIA and then adds with a laugh, ''but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we ...
DAVE VAN RONK To say ‘if you say it, then you’ll understand’ is being arrogant. It’s the self-satisfaction...
WATARU WATARI This tournament will not only be a good one but it also represents a good person. James Gamble is li...
ANDRE BOUTTE Trust is the deepest root of the human relationship tree and perhaps the only cherished quality whic...
ANUJ SOMANY The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israe...
ALCEE HASTINGS In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing ...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP Each team had a support person, or in our case, a support crew.
AMY SMALLWOOD If all creatures could comprehend the feelings of one another, then it would be justified to claim a...
ANUJ SOMANY They drew their net to shore, and there was a fire of coals, and fish laid thereon, another fish. Wh...
ALEXANDER MCKENZIE Hamas is a terrorist organisation, should disarm, and renounce violence. We will not talk to any ele...
FRED JONES Given his violent history and the violence in this case in Tennessee, I would consider parole to be ...
JASON WHITE As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,/ One each of everything as in a show-case/ Which naturally ...
ROBERT FROST It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.
ADOLPH SAPHIR You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the labor...
E. P. THOMPSON The hospital considered it justified in placing the person under monitoring and alerting the Belgian...
INGE YOORIS The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can m...
ARISTOTLE An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ough...
BETTE DAVIS I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom ...
ALEXANDER CHEE Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING The pre-election violence is a terrorist activity, with political goals.
ANDY APAID Take a break of that which you enjoy and what you don't enjoy leave it.
DEYTH BANGER I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust...
LECH WALESA It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it d...
MARTIN SCORSESE I am person of action,no body can deter me from my way of thoughts & living.I am immoveable from my ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA No matter what resentments we may have from the past, we have to be able to wash each other's feet. ...
GARLAND HUNT A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an...
J.K. ROWLING Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwi...
MAHATMA GANDHI My calling ties me to no office, makes me no man's slave, compels me to no action which my soul cond...
J.H.B PEEL Each person is born to one possession which out values all his others - his last breath
MARK TWAIN If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from eithe...
STEVEN PINKER There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction b...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We will take each customer, each case and take a look at what they paid, how many treatments they ha...
FRANCINE GIANI Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
WENDELL BERRY Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between ...
PAUL KALANITHI Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between ...
PAUL KALANITHI Being genuinely happy for the successes of another person adds joy to our day. When one person succe...
RHOBERTA SHALER, PHD Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not
EPICTETUS Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which h...
EDWARD GIBBON It's excellent news, and well justified. One of the things we learned in our tours around the valley...
JEFF BECKELMAN We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It'...
JOEL COEN My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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GLORIA STEINEM Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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GLORIA STEINEM If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
GLORIA STEINEM Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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GLORIA STEINEM I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are...
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GLORIA STEINEM Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...
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GLORIA STEINEM There's no shortage of great young activists.
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GLORIA STEINEM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He...
GLORIA STEINEM A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's...
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GLORIA STEINEM Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
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GLORIA STEINEM The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
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GLORIA STEINEM If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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GLORIA STEINEM Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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GLORIA STEINEM Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
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GLORIA STEINEM Logic is in the eye of the logician.
GLORIA STEINEM . . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.
GLORIA STEINEM I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage...
GLORIA STEINEM Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.
GLORIA STEINEM Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and o...
GLORIA STEINEM Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
GLORIA STEINEM Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose powe...
GLORIA STEINEM When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie...
GLORIA STEINEM A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.
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GLORIA STEINEM The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
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GLORIA STEINEM I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact...
GLORIA STEINEM I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be...
GLORIA STEINEM No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his wo...
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GLORIA STEINEM Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not al...
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GLORIA STEINEM If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
GLORIA STEINEM You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79
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GLORIA STEINEM Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEM It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
GLORIA STEINEM Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it
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GLORIA STEINEM The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
GLORIA STEINEM Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
GLORIA STEINEM I can't mate in captivity
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GLORIA STEINEM We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEM For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
GLORIA STEINEM A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
GLORIA STEINEM If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
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GLORIA STEINEM I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself...
GLORIA STEINEM She has become the Julia Child of sex.
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GLORIA STEINEM make dinner, not war.
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GLORIA STEINEM I am not now, and never have been, a girl friend of Henry Kissinger
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GLORIA STEINEM The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
GLORIA STEINEM A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
GLORIA STEINEM The definition of woman's work is shitwork
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GLORIA STEINEM Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
GLORIA STEINEM Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM So, whatever you want to do, just do it....Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it
GLORIA STEINEM The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God
GLORIA STEINEM There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
GLORIA STEINEM Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especiall...
GLORIA STEINEM Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
GLORIA STEINEM so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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"That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what...
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GLORIA STEINEM We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It'...
GLORIA STEINEM Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...
GLORIA STEINEM The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors...
GLORIA STEINEM The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
GLORIA STEINEM If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
GLORIA STEINEM Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
GLORIA STEINEM Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
GLORIA STEINEM Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
GLORIA STEINEM Laughter is a rescue. p.204
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