"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it."
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"The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible."
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"If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else."
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"Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free."
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"The blade itself incites to deeds of violence."
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"Violence often brings about momentary results."
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"I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted."
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"One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans."
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"You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing."
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"Stop the violence! Can't we all just get along?"
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"The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other."
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"My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ."
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"Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger."
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"I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence."
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"I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause."
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"I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence."
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"Violence always thrived on counter violence."
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"Violence is an expression of impotence."
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"Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate."
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"Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings."
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