"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."

Violence, Power, Threat, Suffering

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"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."

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"But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive."

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