"Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence"
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"Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself."
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"Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it."
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"All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak"
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"The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system."
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"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."
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"Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say"
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"Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence."
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"On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence"
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"Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue."
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"I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner."
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"Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing."
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"Fear, she's the mother of violence."
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"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."
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"Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence."
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"It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury."
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"There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover."
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"Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself."
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"The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation."
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"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."
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