Quotes of Severity - somelinesforyou

“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”

- Max Stirner

“ The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ”

- Lucretius

“ If GOD gave you roses and then you ask, "Why are there no thorns?" God would just smile and show His bleeding hands saying... "I took them away, to save you from pain.? ”

- Anonymous

“ In violence, we forget who we are. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ Nonviolence doesn't always work — but violence never does. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. ”

- Dave Barry

“ There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. ”

- Benito Mussolini

“ Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. ”

- Homer

“ For all who draw the sword will die by the sword. ”

- Bible

“ Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. ”

- Naomi Klein

“ Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down. ”

- Malcolm X

“ Violence is not the problem; it is a consequence of the problem. ”

- Jim Wallis

“ Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head. Tthis world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ We do it wrong, being so majestical,To offer it the show of violence. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Violence is my last option. ”

- Chuck Norris

“ Actual violence has no attraction for me at all. ”

- Jane Campion

“ As if we don't have enough violence on television. ”

- Barbara Bush

“ It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. ”

- Seneca

“ Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. ”

- Quentin Tarantino

“ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Salvor Hardin. ”

- Salvor Hardin

“ Violence does even justice unjustly. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? ”

- Lorraine Hansberry

“ Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world. ”

- Ronald Reagan
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