"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."

Arendt, Hannah · Violence · 1 fans >>
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"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance."

Arendt, Hannah · Violence · 0 fans >>
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"Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?"

Ballard, J. G. · Violence · 1 fans >>
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"I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future."

Bond, Edward · Violence · 0 fans >>
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"They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma."

Buddha · Violence · 2 fans >>
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"We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization."

Burgess, Anthony · Violence · 1 fans >>
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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan · Violence · 0 fans >>
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"Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them."

Dworkin, Andrea · Violence · 0 fans >>
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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."

Gandhi, Mahatma · Violence · 5 fans >>
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Hardin, Salvor · Violence · 2 fans >>
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