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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."	Emma Goldman
"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
"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
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."	Thomas Jefferson
"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
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."	R. D. Laing
"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
"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
"Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving."	Bill McIntire
"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
"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
"Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs."	Elbert Hubbard
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."	Abraham Lincoln
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."	Isaac Asimov
"He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand."	George Bernard Shaw
"It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind."	George Bernard Shaw
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