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"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
"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
"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."	R. D. Laing
"There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire."	Gamal Abdel Nasser
"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs."	Elbert Hubbard
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."	Albert Einstein
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."	Isaac Asimov
"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
"The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."	Albert Einstein
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."	James Madison
"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
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"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
"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 most violent element in society is ignorance."	Emma Goldman
"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
"There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow."	Christopher Darlington Morley
"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
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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