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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

James Madison
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Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths. -James Madison
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman
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You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein
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If he's a guy with a violent history, he has shown a step towards violence, perhaps making the threat more credible.

Andrew Leipold
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. -Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes
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[The] Army says you are a violent man. -Scott Pelley
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton
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We will act according to the situation that we face, ... We will use any means peaceful and violent.

Ali Hussein
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The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent. -Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

Sharon Tate
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At times, it can be extremely violent.

Jim Slavin
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Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. -Saskya Pandita
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The tap root of violent crime in Jamaica.

Dr Peter Phillips
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They see a lot of violent crime and a lot of gang violence – that's what I'm concerned about.

Michael Brunker
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...we will continue our efforts to protect kids from violent video games by working with retailers. -Heidi Watson
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Gang members are violent. A lot of these kids don't expect to live to be 20 years old.

David Conley
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He became incredibly violent. You saw it in his plans for vengeance after the war, when he wanted to kill six million Germans by poisoning the water of German cities. To an extent everyone involved had a little bit of Isser Schmidt in them -- Abba and the others learned it in the woods. Right or wrong, they said that the war remade them in its image.

Rich Cohen
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The assignment was violent in nature and included a killing. -Rick Kaufman
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He used to sell drugs, but he got out of that. He was straightening up his life. He was never a violent man. He just likes fast money.

Gregory Jones
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While passage of this legislation will do nothing to bring back Carlie Brucia and other children who have been brutally murdered by predators, it can save other families the anguish of losing a child to the most unthinkable of violent acts.

Katherine Harris
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Oh, ... Did we mention that he would be non-violent? -Greg Rucka
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