"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power."
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"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
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"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."
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"There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life."
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"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom."
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"Violence begins with the fork."
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"Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle."
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"The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase."
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"I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence."
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"The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity."
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"Violence is the repartee of the illiterate."
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"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
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"I believe humor nullifies violence."
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"This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security."
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"Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts."
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"Violence is not the only means of persuasion."
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"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."
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"Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account."
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"Violence will only increase the cycle of violence."
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