I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

quote by George Stevens
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

quote by Hans Kung
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Violence Is Not A Person

Violence is not a person
Because a woman didn't give birth to violence

poem by Aldo Kraas
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These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

quote by Margaret J. Wheatley
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0276 Savagery

When did you first meet savagery?
Not merely, the wounded heart,
the Christmas present that they never bought
although they knew you wanted that
and nothing, nothing else..
not merely when you knew
that for the first time, they’d lied to you..
not merely when the world first let you down,

but that savagery that tears at the heart,
when you realise for the first time
that to others – or at best, some others –
you’re just nothing, nothing…

I guess the question is too painful for some; those
born into it; who wake to it within the house;
go to bed with it; are woken by it in the middle of the night;

some meet it at first school,
are schooled in it;

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poem by Michael Shepherd
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No violent extreme endures.

quote by Thomas Carlyle
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An Ode To A Saint Of Peace

An Ode to a Saint of Non-Violence – Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

He came from a non-descript Indian place
A village which would not have a place
In Her Majesty’s palace’ grace
What could this man for India raise?

When the Indian nation reeled
Under a foreign yoke
This frail man with iron will
Preached a master stroke

He visualized violence was no funnel
To get to the end of the tunnel
That the spring of freedom would gurgle
For the Indian freedom struggle

It is not arms and blood
Or revenge, violence or death
That will get India freedom

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poem by Arvind Chandak
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

quote by Susan B. Anthony
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It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

quote by Thomas Jane
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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

quote by Jim Morrison
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Popo

There is not much to do.
Or be trampled over.
Society returns to savagery
Think with your body.
Push or pull out...

poem by Eon Ezkiel
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I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

quote by John Burns
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

quote by William Goldman
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So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

quote by Hugh Mackay
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Let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

quote by Robert F. Kennedy
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I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.

quote by Mark David Chapman
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There is an excess of familiarity at the root of all hostility

Algerian proverbs
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The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

quote by Sun Tzu
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I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

quote by Mark Millar
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

quote by Larry Wachowski
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