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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi
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The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. -Robert J. Sawyer
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Jean Genet
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In Maidanek, Poland, there was only one place where the children were treated kindly; at the entrance to the gas chamber each one was handed a sweet.

Gideon Hausner
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. -R. D. Laing
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

Quentin Tarantino
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In violence, we forget who we are.

Mary Mccarthy
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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. -H. G. Bohn
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Jean Genet
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

William Sloan Coffin
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It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. -Thomas Elliot
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Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol.

Vivian Stanshall
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch
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You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. -Roman Polanski
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First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

Lincoln Steffens
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Muhammad Ali
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Violence is not funny. -William Friedkin
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They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever.

Lucinda Franks
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. -Martin Luther King Jr.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence. -Mahatma Gandhi
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi
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If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world...

Deepak Chopra
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. -Malcolm X
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If he's a guy with a violent history, he has shown a step towards violence, perhaps making the threat more credible.

Andrew Leipold
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein
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The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation. -Julie Johnston
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