Violence Quotations
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| I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string. | |||
| - Scott Adams | |||
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| There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. | |||
| - Muhammad Ali | |||
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| Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. | |||
| - Isaac Asimov | |||
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| It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may concern." | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. | |||
| - Dave Barry | |||
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| Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex." | |||
| - Dick Cavett | |||
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| He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. | |||
| - Mahatma Gandhi | |||
| It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. | |||
| - Mahatma Gandhi | |||
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| I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! | |||
| - Hawkeye | |||
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| So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. | |||
| - Elbert Hubbard | |||
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| The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. | |||
| - Robert J. J. Sawyer | |||
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| Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. | |||
| - Francis Jeffrey | |||
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| Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. | |||
| - John F. Kennedy | |||
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| Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. | |||
| - Martin Luther, Jr. King | |||
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| Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
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| In violence we forget who we are. | |||
| - Mary McCarthy | |||
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| Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. | |||
| - John Milton | |||
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| He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. | |||
| - Plutarch | |||
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| The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. | |||
| - Chinese Proverb | |||
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| And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
| It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. | |||
| - Daniel Webster | |||