Quotes on violence
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.
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Manitonquat Quotes
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.
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Josef de Maistre Quotes
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
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Sam Peckinpah Quotes
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Alan Paton Quotes
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?
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Adin Ballou Quotes
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
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John Milton Quotes
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
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John Frederick Boyes Quotes
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
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Dave Barry Quotes
Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does.
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Madge Micheels-Cyrus Quotes
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
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Henry C. Wright Quotes
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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Martin Luther King Quotes
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.
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Scott Adams Quotes
There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used. Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
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Gil Bailie Quotes
If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.
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Jack Nicholson Quotes
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
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Max Stirner Quotes
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Isaac Asimov Quotes
Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."
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Dick Cavett Quotes
The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
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Gil Bailie Quotes