"I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity."
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"To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go."
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"Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion."
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"Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage."
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"Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness."
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"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."
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"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."
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"True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa."
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"We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity"
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"The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam."
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"The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other."
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"...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!"
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"Gentleness succeeds better than violence."
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"Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
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"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all."
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"Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence."
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"I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again."
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"Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed."
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"I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood."
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"Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him."
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