"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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"We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"We live in a culture of violence."

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"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"

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"Begin to see the violence around you, begin to see the violence within you."

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"Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people."

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"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed."

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"Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution."

DaShanne Stokes, American Author

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"Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

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"Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman."

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Explore more quotes by Leo Tolstoy

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."

Humanity

"He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength."

Purpose

"What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"

Philosophy

"Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement."

Spiritual

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

Life

"The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically."

Perspective

"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."

War

"The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy, it is the negation of Christianity."

Religion

"How can one be well...when one suffers morally?"

Morality

"Patriotism and its results--wars--give an enormous revenue to the newspaper trade, and profits to many other trades. Every writer, teacher, and professor is more secure in his place the more he preaches patriotism. Every Emperor and King obtains the more fame the more he is addicted to patriotism."

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