Violence,the Violent: Voices From the Tomb of Those who Never Were

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Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes

resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery

follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using

violence. "

Tao Te Ching

 

" I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all

shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to

accept the dogmas of any one of them. "

Arthur Conan Doyle,

 

 

" Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with

violence. "

Jim Morrison

 

" Education is a vaccine for violence. "

Edward James

 

" Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose

thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It

has potency which the world does not yet know. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

" Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be

maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as

his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. "

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without

conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality,

Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without

principles "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a

sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we

obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized

butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country.

Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into

the very depths of violence. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

" I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as

old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as

vast a scale as I could. "

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" Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-

violence. "

Albert Camus

 

 

" Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. "

Alice Walker

 

" The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve

their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means,

knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. "

Buddha

 

" If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred

against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to

the wounding of the world... "

Deepak Chopra

 

 

" If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you

like it, you call it " romance and adventure. " "

Joe Bob Briggs

 

" Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is

momentary. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" Poverty is the worst form of violence. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence "

Jean-Paul Sartre

 

" I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is

interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his

freedom. "

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

 

" Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity,

are both uncivilized and undemocratic "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the

people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. "

Franklin P. Jones

 

" I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good

is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation

of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. "

Anais Nin

 

" God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess

their property, not seize it. "

Euripides

 

" Non-violence is the article of faith. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let

him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example

assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. "

Abraham Lincoln

 

" It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able

to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

 

" The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is

addicted to it. "

Bill Cosby

 

" Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence.

Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter-hatred only increases

the surface as well as the depth of hatred. "

Mohandas Gandhi

 

" Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and

violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention,

it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time

from the process of growing up. "

Newton N. Minow

 

" The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual

crime. "

Max Stirner

 

" Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for

the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness

to sacrifice. It is the patience to win. "

Cesar Chavez

 

" Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help!

I'm being repressed! "

Monty Python

 

" Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all

evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are

still savages. "

Thomas Alva Edison

 

" Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest

drought. "

Simon Wiesenthal

 

" The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which

maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is

violence. "

Kenneth Kaunda

 

" Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that

swallows it up. "

Mohandas Gandhi

 

" It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate,

ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy

of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct

themselves as if the basis of society was violence. "

Mohandas Gandhi

 

" Violence is a tool of the ignorant. "

Flip Wilson

 

" Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything,

except perhaps violence "

Pearl Bailey

 

" Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the

growth of a true democratic spirit. "

Mohandas Gandhi

 

" In violence, we forget who we are "

Mary McCarthy

 

" The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. "

John Arbuthnot

 

" They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons.

But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which,

exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves,

endures all the violence. "

Virgil

 

" Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political,

magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest

depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality,

passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the

giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies

pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to

destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented

the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what

we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise — the terrifying human

animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive,

untramelled lord of creation. "

Salman Rushdie

 

" The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and

regular employment of violence "

Adolf Hitler

 

" The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of

crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not

only a living but a good living. "

David Abrahansen

 

" Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. "

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" Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be

defended and not to be shared. "

Henri Nouwen

 

" Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common -

the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and

destruction "

Oscar Ostlund

 

" The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save

in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are

arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is

humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. "

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 

" I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone,

but they've always worked for me. "

Hunter S. Thompson

 

" If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put

into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of

children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and

neglect, they could make a world shine. "

Michael J. Tucker

 

" Nothing good ever comes of violence. "

Martin Luther

 

" Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book.

Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy

land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be

solved with violence. "

Bill Maher

 

" War seems to be part of the history of humanity. As we look at

the situation of our planet in the past, countries, regions and even

villages were economically independent of one another. Under those

circumstances, the destruction of our enemy might have been a victory

for us. There was a a relevance to violence and war. However, today

we are so interdependent that the concept of war has become out

dated. When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to

arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only

appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer relevant. We must

work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always

keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our

neighbors! We cannot ignore their interests! Doing so would

ultimately cause us to suffer. I therefore think that the concept of

violence is now unsuitable. Nonviolence is the appropriate method. "

Dalai Lama

 

" Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely,

the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but

left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. "

Hannah Arendt

 

" Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "

Salvador Hardin

 

" The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a

storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down

responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to

zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained. "

William Styron

 

 

" This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely,

more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. "

Leonard Bernstein

 

 

" The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only

reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the

environment. "

William Sloan Coffin

 

" Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely,

through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar

ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion,

totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing

human beings from within. "

Hannah Arendt

 

" 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

 

 

" Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with

hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic

pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the

shooting. "

George Orwell

 

 

" In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to

achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. "

Andrew Young

 

" Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of

them must fall tomorrow. "

Evita Peron

 

" We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as

love. "

R. D. Laing

 

" Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they

say "

Martin Luther

 

" The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which

we do to ourselves "

François de la Rochefoucauld

 

" You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it

realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset

people, then that's obscenity. "

Roman Polanski

 

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term

maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the

dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in

which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. "

Robert Frost

 

" In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. "

Cesar Chavez

 

" The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence

covereth the mouth of the wicked

Proverbs 10:11

 

" Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain

which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor

demolished by the force of armies. "

Joseph Addison

 

" If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we

tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts

abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence

to get what they want. "

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

 

" If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put

into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of

children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and

neglect, they could make a world shine. "

Michael J. Tucker

 

 

" Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always

crude and distorted. "

Ellen Glasgow

 

" As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend

one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose

faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. "

W. H. Auden

 

" Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative

alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or

aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. "

Dorothy Thompson

 

" In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to

what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power

to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them -

organized violence. "

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 

" I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the

most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick

visions of violence, terror, sex and death. "

Courtney Love

 

" The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the

horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou

savest me from violence.

2 Samuel 22:3

 

" Non-violence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an

appeal to the brain. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

" Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most

truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost

leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. "

Willie Mays

 

" Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket

without resorting to violence. "

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" From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the

twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of

violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their

parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly

concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise

is on the whole successful. "

R. D. Laing

 

" Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what

it intends to create. "

Pope John Paul II

 

" The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than

its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol,

drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and

suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of

deliverance. "

Malcolm Muggeridge

 

" Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches

violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for

all. "

Mohandas Gandhi

 

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch "

Quentin Tarantino

 

" Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized

violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected

to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered. "

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 

 

" There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. "

Cesar Chavez

 

" He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious

shall their blood be in his sight. "

Bible

 

" Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous

violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. "

R. D. Laing

 

" This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards'

perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense.

People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill

themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need

to be treated as such. "

Charles Krauthammer

 

" Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not

enmity; peace, and not violence. "

Pervez Musharraf

 

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and

then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

Gloria Steinem

 

" The idea that we are physical beings descended from primeval cells

in nutrient soups, that idea does violence to my intuition, stomps

all over it with football-shoes. The idea that we are descended from

a jealous God who formed us out of dust "

Richard Bach

 

 

" It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever

waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to

weaken truth, and serve only to make it stronger. All the lights of

truth are powerless to stop violence.

 

" All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of

suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. "

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 

" It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever

waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to

weaken truth, and serve only to make it stronger. All the lights of

truth are powerless to stop violence,

Blaise Pascal

 

" Violence does even justice unjustly "

Thomas Carlyle

 

" A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting

a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely

and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and

magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by

which one class overthrows another. "

Mao Zedong

 

" Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. "

zeretia Julius K. Nyerere

 

" It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever

waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to

weaken truth, and serve only to make it stronger. All the lights of

truth are powerless to stop violence, " I believe violence will only

increase the cycle of violence. "

Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

 

" Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in

the throat. "

H. G. Bohn

 

" Violence is not funny. "

William Friedkin

 

" Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the

mouth of the wicked. "

Bible

 

" May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but

rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. . . . We are to love our

enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. "

Marianne Williamson

 

" If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a

tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're

dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes,

they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not. "

Anthony Burgess

 

" If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle,

unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate

night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an

endless reign of meaningless chaos. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

" It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does

not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. "

Martin Scorsese

 

" 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. "

Indira Gandhi

 

" The source of most human violence and suffering has been a

 

hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions

 

of innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound,

 

starved, raped, mutilated, battered and tortured by their parents

 

and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled

 

adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage

 

their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars. "

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" If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those

whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely

offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the

injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily "

Stephen Fry

 

" Violence is a calm that disturbs you. "

Jean Genet

 

" Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up

a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those

bones whose sinews gave it motion. "

Albert Schweitzer

 

" It is only recently that India fell under the impact of alien

cultures which highlighted material comfort, physical luxury, sensual

liberty, and exterior display; and that Indians have trodden the

wrong path of exploitation and violence, idleness and pompousness. "

Atharva Veda

 

" Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each

civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which

created it. "

Nicolas Gomez Davila

 

" Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is

mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the

ingenuity of man. "

Mohandas Gandhi

 

" Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society:

violence punctuated by committee meetings. "

George F. Will

 

" In Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to

drown all mankind except Noah's family. But because that family

carried the same genes as those who had drowned, violence continued

unabated. "

Robert Davis

 

" 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. "

Robert A. Heinlein

 

" Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? "

Lorraine Hansberry

 

" Wrestling is ballet with violence. "

Jesse Ventura

 

" Humor offers an alternative to violence. Humor gives us a choice. "

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" Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order.

It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense

individual effort. "

Mohandas Gandhi

 

" There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that rap music spurs

violence. "

John Norton

 

" Violence is my last option. "

Chuck Norris

 

" Respect is really only a devious route taken by violence. "

ubu48 George Bataille

 

" He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity,

cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like

manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with

the same violence "

Samuel Johnson

 

" The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all

human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its

standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity,

and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into

a beast of prey. "

William Ellery Channing

 

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling,

irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the " tough " among

cities, a spectacle for the nation. "

Lincoln Steffens

 

" Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye. "

Roger Kahn

 

" I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of

danger. "

Jean Genet

 

" Wars such as that which has occurred in Iraq only allow hatred,

violence and terror to proliferate "

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

 

" Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal

condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he

has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must

become as abhorrent as eating another's fle "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

" Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee

started all this violence. "

Marina Oswald

 

" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "

Edward Koch

 

" Frustration is the wet nurse of violence. "

David Abrahansen

 

" Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. "

Joan Baez

 

" In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before

and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet

formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire

specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the

personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention

becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that

parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely

during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the

stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed.

Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first

period? "

Antonio Gramsci

 

" I am myself a believer in Animas [non-violence]. But I make a

distinction between Animas and meekness. Meekness is weakness and

weakness is voluntarily imposed upon oneself is not a virtue. I am

believer in Animas but in the sense defined by the saint Takuma.

Takuma has quite rightly said that Animas consisted of two things:

(1) love and kindness towards all creatures and (2) destruction of

evil doers. The second part of this definition is often lost sight of

that the doctrine of Animas becomes so ridiculous. "

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" Let us clear any romantic notion of daredeviltry from our minds. It

is nothing less than a sordid crime of violence inspired by vast

greed. "

Edmund Davies

 

" The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-

interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided

those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. "

William James

 

" And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that

the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and

out of the hand of Saul: / And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my

fortress, and my deliverer; / The God of my rock; in him will I

trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower,

and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. "

Bible

 

" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules

of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "

Norman O. Brown

 

" In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more

powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that

power and use it on behalf of peace on earth. "

Marianne Williamson

 

" It is society's tolerance of violence in society that's probably

responsible for violent behavior more than any motion picture or

television show "

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" In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness,

declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind --

too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed

itself. . . . East and West do not distrust each other because we are

armed; we are armed because we distrust each other. And our

differences are not about weapons but about liberty. . . . The most

fundamental distinction of all between East and West (sic.) [is that]

the totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such

violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to

enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love

and of worship an affront. "

Ronald Reagan

 

" You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the

kingdom of heaven is like a woman. "

James Joyce

 

" . . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered

my root soil. "

Roy Wilkins

 

" Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest

violence "

Hebrew Proverb

 

" Non-violence and cowardice go ill together. I can imagine a fully

armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an

element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an

impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. "

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" All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole

world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on

the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. "

Lenny Bruce

 

" Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices,

often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and

that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all

methods, not excluding violence. "

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 

" The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth,

Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence. "

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

" It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I

saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and

Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores

of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas

has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can

only escape by the most anarchic violence. "

William G. Golding

 

 

" Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are

forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite

symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and,

yes, rococo sex. "

Lorraine Lee Cudmore

 

" There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from

hopelessness. "

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" Too late, the ordinary German realized that the violence which

before had been directed against 'other' people could now equally

land on him. "

William Waller

 

" Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a

certain evil tendency in human beings. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

 

" If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of

violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating

or defecating in public are today. "

Myriam Miedzian

 

" My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and

when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the

violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even

imagine. "

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

 

" Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace

tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and

public relations. It proves that we should be careful what

intellectuals wish for, because we might get it. "

Brad Holland

 

" We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to

put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right

track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater. "

Hosni Mubarak

 

" I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. "

Hubert Geroid

 

" A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it

like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right

now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on

the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in

movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell

tickets.'

?

 

" I ain't never liked violence. "

Sugar Ray Robinson

 

" A male friend of mine recently told me that if he should so much as

look at any women other than me, I was to club him in the head. Hard.

He said it would save him some pain he was sure of it. Giving a woman

the promise of permitted violence...difficult to pass that offer up. "

Owen J. McClain

 

" How dare one presume to write in a particular way, for children?

They deserve the best of a writer, just as the writer deserves the

best of themselves. The only limits are sex, for reasons of

censorship, and violence, for reasons of common sense. "

Tanith Lee

 

" It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue

with violence right now. "

Thomas Jane

 

" I find that as a kid, I could take much more violence, blood, guts,

and gore, and you could bring it on and nothing was too shocking for

me as a kid or teenager. And now, I'm at 35 and my tolerance for that

stuff is much less. As I grow older and closer to the grave, that

stuff becomes more and more disturbing to me. "

Thomas Jane

 

" Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without

violence and oppression. "

Thomas Tryon

 

" The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak

violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. "

William T. Sherman

 

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that. "

Wyclef Jean

 

" I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual

reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of

violence, destruction and terrorism. "

Yusuf Islam

 

" No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as

he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of

violence. "

Yitzhak Rabin

 

" A man is not just if he carries a matter by violence; no, he who

distinguishes both right and wrong, who is learned and leads others,

not by violence, but by law and equity, and who is guarded by the law

and intelligent, he is called just. "

Friedrich Max Muller

 

" To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes

suffering. "

Gwen John

 

" The black chapter of strife, violence, turbulence and turmoil is

finally closed. "

Hun Sen

 

" Actual violence has no attraction for me at all. "

Jane Campion

 

" We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our

history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars

ever since. We're not a pacific people. "

James Lee Burke

 

" One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any

blindly formed chimera. "

Janos Bolyai

 

" The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters'

terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what

to do and who to support. "

Ian Smith

 

" My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence

and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. "

Jalal Talabani

 

" A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such

act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. "

Sigmund Freud

 

" If we are to continue to try and force the square pegs of secular

democracy and Western culture into the round wholes of a conservative

Muslim society, then we will continue to see escalating resistance

and escalating allied violence to contain that insurgency. "

Amir Butler

 

" Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence

goes. "

Dr. Dre

 

" Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence

and revenge. "

Hiawatha

 

" The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love

violence his soul hates "

Bible

 

 

" I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from

the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but

it will do me no good because I do not believe it "

Francois Rabelais

 

" Keep violence in the mind where it belongs "

Brian Aldiss

 

" What's needed today is not more violence but more peace. "

Saeb Erekat

 

" We want you to express your point of view but without violence. "

Saleh al-Mutlaq

 

" Once that entered the piece, it ceased to be just a biographical

look at a great world leader, and it became a thriller, ... It

explores so many human questions about violence or peace, and what

(New Yorker writer) Seymour Hersh calls 'the Samson option,' because

when Samson brought down the temple on the Philistines, he brought it

down on himself -- it's Israel's feeling that if it goes down, it

will not go down alone. "

Tovah Feldshuh

 

" [Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother who lost her son in Iraq and

who has spent the last month perched outside the Crawford ranch like

Poe's raven, almost sounds like she pities George in her latest

dispatch from Camp Casey.] Since the Freedom and Democracy thing is

not going so well, ... and the Iraqi parliament is having such a hard

time writing their constitution, since violence is mounting against

Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down every

day, he had to come up with something. "

Cindy Sheehan

 

" Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the

violence, "

George W. Bush

 

" whatever facts we got wrong, we apologize for. I've expressed regret

for the loss of life and the violence that put American troops in

harm's way. I'm getting a lot of angry e-mail about that, and I

understand it. "

Mark Whitaker

 

" Just as citizens, ... we feel badly about the fact that there's been

a rash of violence. . . . Clearly, that was not our intent in

publishing what we thought was a solid news item. "

Mark Whitaker

 

" After five years of intifada, I repeat that the balance of force is

not in our favour and that dialogue is more beneficial than

violence, "

Mahmud Abbas

 

" The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist

fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root,

ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking

has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazi-ism

and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through

violence. "

David Cameron

 

 

" It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the

completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for

it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but

sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo, "

Robert Lantos

 

" It think [acceptance levels] sort of swings back and forth. Like in

the 60s there was a lot more freedom with sex that doesn't exist

today. Language has gotten pushed a bit farther and violence is way

far out. "

Bob Saget

 

" Oh, you can have as much violence as you want, but no swearing and

absolutely no sex, "

Bruce Campbell

 

" It's an opportunity to get across a message: stop the violence, "

Victoria Snelgrove

 

" We detest any form of violence related to religion, or ideology or

race. "

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

 

" Ironically, we left South Africa to escape the violence over here. "

Stephen Katz

 

" [but outbreaks of violence in New Orleans hinted at the potential

for wider unrest and further call-ups, which could reveal weaknesses

elsewhere in the nation.] What do we do if there is a terrorist

attack? ... We're increasing our risk. "

Lawrence Korb

 

" Often the violence goes to children as well, ... That's pretty

scary. "

Pete Stark

 

" Felix had a history of delusions and violence which was fueled by

untreated and very serious mental illness. When the jury understands

that he acted consistent with a man who suffered from a psychotic

mental illness, then it makes perfect sense ... that he very easily

could explode into a murderous rage. "

Daniel Horowitz

 

" All of these things, especially in a depressed person, contribute to

suicidality and violence, "

Peter Breggin

 

" we will have zero tolerance for cruelty, harassment, excessive

teasing, discrimination, violence and intimidation. ... Derogatory

comments, verbal or written, made about others will not be tolerated.

Racial, religious and sexual slurs or jokes will not be condoned. "

Frank DeAngelis

 

 

....so many more, have said so much more, and it's

difficult to say what any of it means for a peaceful way of life

(whatever that means to you or to me)..bob