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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. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)

– Indira Nehru Gandhi

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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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.

– Maurice Godelier

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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

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It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment.

– Colin Greenwood

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The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.

– James Earl Jones

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Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

– Eric Lustbader

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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

– Hebrew Proverb

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

– Hunter S. Thompson

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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

– Francis Jeffrey

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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. Sawyer

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Anger and Violence are the last refuge of the incompetent.

– GSAN

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