"Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds."
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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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"The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one."
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"I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were."
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"This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings."
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"No violent extreme endures."
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"If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality."
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"I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it."
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"I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest."
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"I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women."
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"The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?"
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"Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine."
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"The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent."
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"The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy."
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"Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility."
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"Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse."
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"A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent."
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"Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society."
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"The world is less violent than it has ever been."
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"As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour."
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