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Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

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On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so th...

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Brennan ManningAll Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...

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Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monop...

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Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...

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The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who opp...

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Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility. There are times when we m...

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Chris HedgesWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary h...

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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that w...

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If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...

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Clarence DarrowThe Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but histo...

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All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within da...

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He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history p...

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I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed and foolishness and a love o...

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Now driving in a wild frieze of headlong horses with eyes walled and teeth cropped and naked riders ...

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There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and wer...

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They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava d...

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I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you...

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Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate co...

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You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why,Cause Santa Claus...

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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requ...

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Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent c...

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If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence...

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David GraeberDebt: The First 5,000 Years

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yours...

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The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing dul...

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David GraeberThe Democracy Project: A History

While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing ...

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David GraeberThe Democracy Project: A History

This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call i...

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David GraeberThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology

In American prisons, which are extraordinarily violent places, the most vicious form of punishment i...

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David GraeberThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; ha...

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What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear ...

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The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to c...

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From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, ...

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When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief ...

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Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the ki...

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Dean KoontzYour Heart Belongs to Me

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option fo...

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who comm...

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How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Vi...

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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and ...

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The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only...

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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...

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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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