We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.


Ephraim Mirvis

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We distance ourselves from the violence. We still don't think it's because of our protest that peopl...
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One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
DANNY GLOVER
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this m...
DEEPAK CHOPRA
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this m...
DEEPAK CHOPRA
We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, t...
OSCAR A. ROMERO
If one responds to hatred, violence and aggression with hatred, violence and aggression one becomes ...
JAIME CONTRERAS
We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.
THOMAS KELLER
Violence against women is the last refuge of disgusting immoral men.
SIR KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN
We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try t...
BEN CARSON
Jews are frequently compared to the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine,' an enduring signal...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, de...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfus...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the r...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression,...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the m...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes ...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
I was honoured recently to accept the position of president of Mizrachi U.K. I did so because I beli...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
In the face of death, we will continue to choose and sanctify life.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
The rabbis will find in me personally someone who cares about their future and welfare.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestl...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the ...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Let no Jew, regardless of their circumstances, feel that he or she cannot experience that unique mom...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member o...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a vi...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance o...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Human beings are partners of the Almighty in bringing life into the world, and we are his partners a...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
It is against our cultural, social and religious norms. We will protest if they hold it.
LIAQUAT BALUCH
The doll provoked rejection, hatred and violence.
AGNES NAIRN
Until our last breath, we must fight the good fight of faith.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
WENDELL BERRY
If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of tha...
MARK LLOYD
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with v...
FRITZ LANG
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that h...
MICHELLE BACHELET
When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.
DASHANNE STOKES
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS
We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.
THOMAS KELLER
Many of those people carrying those placards were clearly inciting violence or inciting hatred and t...
DAVID CAMERON
New York City is a tinderbox. The Sons of the Serpent - a white supremacist group with a twisted his...
MARK WAID
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of t...
KENNY MARCHANT
We should abstain from violence, debauchery, evil deeds, sensual-attachment, hatred, anger and ego.
ATHARVA VEDA
In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception o...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA
Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
WILLIE STARGELL
Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love....
MOHANDAS GANDHI
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
JOSE NAROSKY
We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
JOSE NAROSKY
clearly disproportionate and can only breed more hatred and violence.
GUNNAR WIEGAND
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontent...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontent...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
“How much should we sacrifice for our children...everything...till our very last breath.”
CRISTABEL MICHAELS
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with t...
ERIC HOFFER
On our part we have given our assurance there will be no act of violence by the L.T.T.E. against gov...
ANTON BALASINGHAM
On our part we have pledged that there will be no acts of violence. At the same time we want the gov...
ANTON BALASINGHAM
It is no coincidence that when we take our last breath, our Spirit leaves our body. Your breath is y...
SARAH VINE
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he...
ALBERT CAMUS
A demonstration is a normal practice in democratic countries. But if we have any violence at the pro...
ANANT ASAVABHOKIN
Despite the arrests and violence, we consider today's protest a success, ... Two weeks before the vo...
ALI KERIMLI
Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.
REHAN WARIS
Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
Things keep happening all around you. There is violence, there is gore, there are people who will us...
HEEMA SHIRVAIKAR
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would...
PATRICIA IRELAND
Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your ...
T. ARCHMAN
Bush's so-called war against terrorism is actually a war against Muslims. We will protest against U....
HAFIZ HUSSAIN AHMAD
You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friends...
STUART HILL
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing ...
JOHN CONYERS
We cannot get ourselves tied up with a party which has a record of violence against our cadres.
HASHIM SIDDIQUI
You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed...
ROBERT CORMIER
In the event of mass falsification, we will definitely call on the people of Azerbaijan to protest a...
ALI KERIMLI
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our ...
RIKI ROCKETT
We're going back to our custom and traditions, ... We're sending a message to our people that we don...
ANTHONY PICO
It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put ...
GWEN MOORE
All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the inf...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against th...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against th...
CAMILLE PAGLIA
We plan to turn the strike next Thursday into a national protest against the mindless killings and a...
RASHED KHAN MENON
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
PARWEZ MUSHARRAF
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we'r...
ABDUL QADEER KHAN
Breath is the first thing we do coming into this life, breath is the last thing we do leaving this l...
HOWARD MANN
The nature and degree of violence described by the victim and corroborated by the extent of her inju...
DETECTIVE BRYAN JAMISON
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called &#...
TOM HODGKINSON
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothe...
AHMET SEZNER
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothe...
AHMET NECDET SEZNER
Today we are calling for reinstatement of the Violence Against Women Act,
CAROLYN MALONEY
Wars such as that which has occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate
JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO
We came in last night, and I haven't heard of any violence.
LESLIE ROBERTS
Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
BAHá'U'LLáH

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concrete warnings of plans to carry out an attack at the shrine itself.
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I don't want to commit,
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Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]
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The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]
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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
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For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
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Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
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Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever
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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
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Das Blut allein macht lange noch den Vater nicht.
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If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
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