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You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, draw...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about...

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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...

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I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak...

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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and v...

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Education is the vaccine for violence.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with al...

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Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the wor...

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Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, toleran...

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That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that t...

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The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence...

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You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surge...

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Frank MillerBatman: The Dark Knight Returns

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanze...

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Frans de WaalOur Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Today everyone on our side knows that criminality is not the result of the Algerian's congenital nat...

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In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presen...

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For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people who...

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No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

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There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "s...

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All beings tremble before violence.All fear death.All love life.See yourself in others.Then whom can...

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Life is sacred"? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the lead...

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You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behaviour. It used to be the paren...

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If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who ...

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The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she p...

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The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still...

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...

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I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at...

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You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a ...

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Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...

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We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of...

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For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unaccept...

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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...

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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes...

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The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned th...

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War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security...

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What you love too violently finishes by killing you.

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe...

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These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the...

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To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same....

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Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

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In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

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Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

The continent is full of buried violence, of the bones of antediluvian monsters and of lost races of...

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And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man ...

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Henry MillerTropic of Capricorn

The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindicti...

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Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

Against the claims of a violent "human nature" there is enormous historical evidence that people, wh...

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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who wo...

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Hunter S. ThompsonKingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in t...

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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man wh...

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When you hurt some cunt […] it’s you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you’ve done it for fuck all, it mea...

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Irvine WelshThe Blade Artist

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming u...

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If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive ...

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If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting...

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J. D. SalingerThe Complete Uncollected Stories

In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral...

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Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm ...

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The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...

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I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a ...

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We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to ...

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It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss ...

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One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and p...

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The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and t...

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How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own s...

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Jean-Paul SartreThe Wretched of the Earth

Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the gr...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from kee...

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The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying tha...

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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up ...

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The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, ...

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The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wonder...

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He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wonder...

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No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still ...

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I think it would be cool if we wore suits while we committed these violent acts of retribution. Not ...

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Joey ComeauWe all got it coming

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write wh...

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A terrorist, I think, is simply another kind of pornographer. The pornographer pretends he is disgus...

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I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishme...

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And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from v...

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