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"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."	Joseph Addison
"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction"	Hoshang N. Akhtar
"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."	Saint Augustine
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."	Honoré de Balzac
"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it."	Bill Cosby
"One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater."	Marquis de Sade
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."	Daniel Defoe
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."	Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form."	Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."	Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."	Albert Einstein
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."	Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."	Albert Einstein
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!"	Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation."	Lewis S(amuel) Feuer
"The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."	G Gaia
"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
"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
"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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Emma Goldman	Eric Lustbader	Gamal Abdel Nasser
George Bernard Shaw	G Gaia	Honoré de Balzac
Hoshang N. Akhtar	Indira Nehru Gandhi	Isaac Asimov
James Madison	James Earl Jones	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joseph Addison	Lewis S(amuel) Feuer	Marquis de Sade
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maurice Godelier	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard Milhouse Nixon	R. D. Laing
Saint Augustine	Thomas Jefferson