Violence

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• "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov

• "...no matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights." - Judith Butler, The Believer Magazine - Interview - Issue 2

• "Peace is a resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war." - Judith Butler, The Believer Magazine - Interview - Issue 2

• "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst." - Robert Heinlein

• "There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral" - Benito Mussolini

• "Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan." - Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

• "No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded." - Margaret Mead

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

H. Rap Brown, press conference (1967)

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

Cesar Chavez

• War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Karl Von Clausewitz

• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

• Violence is man re-creating himself.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, Ch. 1

• The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Dr Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the English Poets, `Cowley'

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

Hebrew Proverb

• It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

• [American] Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George Willde:Gewalt it:Violenza