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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
These violent delights have violent ends.
These violent delights have violent ends.
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would read more
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves
The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a read more
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will read more
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
