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“Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith

“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”

World Stills Pain Pleasure Human Nature Shadow Ideals Determine Violent Annoying Brightness Soothing Ideal World

Book:The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.”

Men Quality Situation Violence Human Nature He Man Personality Eternity Violent Afterlife Dispensable

Book:A Good Man is Hard to Find

Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find

“We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.”

“Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.”

Ifs Way Humans Mean Problem Sides Goal Violence Achieve Effects Human Nature Violent Nonviolence Side Effects Achieving Your Goals

Author:Dalai Lama

“Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.”

Humans Given Human Nature Violent Endless

Book:THE 1980 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF

Source: THE 1980 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF

“The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.”

Passion Leader Human Nature Violent Impulse Resolution Yield Senate Assembly Pernicious Propensity

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."”

Men Humans Wells May Hands Violence Human Nature Changed Tradition Breaths Method Strive Violent Non Violence Countrymen Ahimsa

Author:Mahatma Gandhi