Sentences with phrase «own use of violence»

WHEREAS, conditions in various parts of the Muslim World have deteriorated dangerously due to the use of violence and armed struggle as a tool for settling conflicts and imposing one's point of view;

What is important is not to know whether violence is required, but to know whether the use of violence, when it is absolutely necessary, is oriented toward a strategy of continuing struggle for limited changes, or whether its objective is the total destruction of the social order.»

Instead, Shaull offers an admirable formula: «There can be situations in which the use of violence alone can set the process of transformation in motion.

But we have seen that the result aimed at is purely ideological and never coincides with the result achieved by the use of violence.

The appeal to and use of violence in Christian action increase in exact proportion to the decrease in faith.

The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.

This means He sanctioned the use of violence?

For as we have seen throughout this investigation, there can be no use of violence without hate, without judgment, without abomination.

The early Gurus rejected the use of violence.

Of course, Christians will deplore the use of violence, but still they must make up their mind where they will stand should violent revolution or counter-revolution break out, just as they have always had to decide what their position on war should be.

He may, or may not, have believed that there would also be some divine intervention in human history, but he did not support the use of violence against the status quo.

Jesus, while not explicitly condoning the use of violence in self - defense, implicitly suggests the need to be prepared for it when he tells his disciples to buy a sword if they do not have one, «now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.

And he did say that the use of violence to impose religion is to act against reason, and to act against reason is to act against the nature of God, for God has revealed himself as logos — the word and the reason by which all came to be and in which all coheres.

The use of violence as a last resort is justified.

The message is unqualifiedly opposed to the use of violence in order to achieve good, but also a deeply disturbing reminder that violence is made almost inevitable when the legal and political system is unresponsive to the deepest convictions of millions of Americans.

Surely the predominant message of the New Testament condemns the lust for power over others and any use of violence to obtain such power.

If media violence, especially when that violence is in its nature sexual, in fact does threaten the quality of American life, then how do the creative and managerial people in television feel about the use of violence in their productions?

As he put it, «The law gives to capital an immense advantage in permitting its consolidation in great centralized corporations; and neither law nor justice can forbid laborers to combine, in order to protect themselves against the encroachments of capital, so long as they abstain from, that use of violence and rely upon reason and moral influence.»

Approximately one - third of all South Africans claim to support nonviolent change, another one - third admit to being confused, while the remaining one - third support the use of violence.

By contrast, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) which represents approximately 22.5 per cent of all South Africans, and the Roman Catholic Church, which claims 9.5 per cent of the population, have recently endorsed the use of violence as a «necessary evil» to «free» black South Africans.

Just as there are possible justifications for inequality (and for the use of violence in its defense), so there are also possible justifications for resort to violence against existing structures of power» (PPT 27f.)

Sympathetic support for the unionization of labor did not prevent criticism of its occasional use of violence or the tactics associated with «closed shops.»

We who argue about the definition of torture in rendition and combat situations when we have officially renounced the use of violence, should appreciate the irony.

I think everyone knows that there are other verses in the Koran which contradict the use of violence.

But surely the story of the cleansing of the temple is more than a case study in the use of violence.

By design, terrorism is an unpredictable use of violence against an individual, group, community, or nation to attain the goal of the perpetrators.

The only justifiable use of violence is in self defense, all other reasons can be considered criminal and unjustifiable by the law.

Near the end of our email exchange, Derek listed several wars that had been «won» by the use of violence.

The standard for the use of violence is quite vague don't ya think?

The last group is that of the ethnic - power politicizers, who claim not only that their group is beautiful, but also that the preservation, maintenance, enhancement and survival of their group depend upon the achievement of political power, whether it be through benign quotas, proportional representation, community control, caucuses — or in a few cases, outright secession, rebellion or the use of violence.

Today most people believe that general opinion in the past accepted and, in one way or other, blessed the state's use of violence and condemned any revolt against the ruling authorities.

In fact, however, the use of violence, whether by Christians or non-Christians, has always been accepted in Christian thought, on various grounds.

When Marxist analysis is used, the person necessarily assumes all the content of Marxist ideology, including the Marxist concept of truth, ethics, class struggle the use of violence and atheism.

(5) Although the history of Christianity is replete with instances of the use of violence, and although this violence has often been employed for destruction of the enemy rather than reconciliation, dominant Christian teaching has nevertheless encouraged respect for the human integrity and worth of all people and has viewed violence against persons as undesirable.

Whether the issue was civil rights, Vietnam or urban renewal, the Century always feared the activities of the radical element, and abhorred the use of violence to gain power in public life.

The use of violence was, of course, a desperate measure — but blacks, he said, were desperate.

The real question posed by the conflictual nature of human existence is, What is the norm by which we judge our use of violence?

The doctrine of Nazism advocated the use of violence, terrorism, death and destruction to advance the cause of a «superior race».

These scientific socialists, then, were devoid of an explicit human - affirming norm which could guide and criticize their use of violence.

The doctrine of Islam advocates the use of violence, terrorism, death and destruction to advance the cause of a «superior religion».

For example, do you see any appropriate use of violence (by, or endorsed by, God), or is violence opposite of the nature of God in every circumstance?

What's more, fascism regards violence as a moral imperative; which is distinct from other ideologies which accept the use of violence as a means to an end, but do not promote violence in itself as morally good.

The danger of advocating the use of violence is that we alienate those who are inclined to join a spontaneous revolution from within.

Involvement of the army in the Egyptian revolution by refraining from the use of violence, does not seem to be replicated in Syria.

The protesters approach the police and forces of state power without the use of violence; indeed, there is no violence on either side.

Notably, for the first time in its history, the UN authorized the use of violence without permission from the state receiving intervention thus, perhaps inevitably, «choosing sides» in this conflict.

As such, these forces fit at least 2 parts of terrorism definition: (1) Use of violence and (2) To achieve political goals.

Third, the Bolivarian Forces of Liberation (FBL), a left - wing armed group primarily functioning in the Venezuelan states of Apure, Barinas and Zulia might intensify the use of violence (for more information on the various types of violent non-state actors present in the Colombian - Venezuelan borderlands see my recent article in Perspectives on Terrorism).

«Revolutionary» leaders are distinguished mainly by the way they come to power (aka through mass protest), their intellectual vision of a «new legitimizing ideology for the post-revolutionary regime» the use of violence during and after the transition (p. 196).

Order, of course, meant the use of violence to subdue newly freed blacks.