Violence

(139 votes)   They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.

Buddha
568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

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(137 votes)   In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

Joseph De Maistre
1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher

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(132 votes)   If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(126 votes)   Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

J. G. Ballard
1930-, British Author

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(111 votes)   If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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(103 votes)   A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H. Lapham
1935-, American Essayist, Editor

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(97 votes)   The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies.

R. A. Pinker

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(94 votes)   Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''

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(93 votes)   I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

Edward Bond
British Actor, Playwright

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(86 votes)   Violence should have no place in life but within the pages of an engaging novel.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(51 votes)   Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

Andrea Dworkin
1946-, American Feminist Critic

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(43 votes)   We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

Anthony Burgess
1917-1993, British Writer, Critic

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(41 votes)   Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatama Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(39 votes)   Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Leon Trotsky
1879-1940, Russian Revolutionary

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(37 votes)   Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

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