“ Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”
- Paul Fussell- Copy
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“ Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
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“ Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ The extreme limit of wisdom — that is what the public calls madness. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
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“ Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Violent delights have violent ends,And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. ”
- Naomi Klein- Copy
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“ The unquiet republic of the maze of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ 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. - E. F. Schumacher. ”
- E. F. Schumacher- Copy
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“ Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. ”
- Joanna Baillie- Copy
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“ We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. ”
- John Pilger- Copy
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“ I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent. ”
- Bruce Kent- Copy
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“ A History of More Violence'?... I think not. That reminds me of somebody's joke about Gandhi - 'Gandhi 2: Even More Non-Violent.'. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
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