"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."

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"Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board."

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Mark Twain, American Author

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"Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future."

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

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"We live in a culture of violence."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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

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"Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone."

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"To protect one's own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed."

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"Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills."

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"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."

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"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."

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"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

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"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."

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"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."

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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

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"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."

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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

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