"The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves."
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"Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way."
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"Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively."
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"Prophets have a way of dying by violence."
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"I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not."
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"Physical violence is the basis of authority."
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"I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether."
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"Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this."
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"I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me."
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"[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings."
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"The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism."
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"As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression."
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"Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s."
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"My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence."
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"In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states."
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"They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death."
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"The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate."
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"If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence."
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"Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?"
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"My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from."
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