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"It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment." »Colin Greenwood
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"The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted." »Ellen Glasgow
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"The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron." »George Will
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"If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a great shame! Leave it! If a religion is peaceful and innocent, you can never find violence in its history! No good faith carries sword!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence." »Joan Baez
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"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things." »Jilly Cooper
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"violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat." »Julie Burchill
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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., December 11, 1964
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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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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms." »Robert Heinlein
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"Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery." »Shelley
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"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence." »malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x
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"The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity." »G Gaia
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"violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent." »Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon
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"violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." »Isaac Asimov
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"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors." »Frank Herbert
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"What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over." »Chateaubriand
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"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way." »Julius K. Nyerere
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"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom" »H. G. Wells
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"Anger and violence are the last refuge of the incompetent." »GSAN
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind." »Mahtma Gandhi
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"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence." »Francis Jeffrey
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"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence." »Hebrew Proverb
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"violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field." »John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
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"This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence" »The Young Ones
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"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." »Mahatma Gandhi
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