“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being” MenGivingMeanWarPlayFeelingsLawUsedJoyFightingNaturalAnimalViolenceBloodMilitaryDangerWeaponsSpringHatredDifficultyAngryAffectionCrueltyBreastsRemoveCarrieFacultySageVeinsPerilHornsNatural LawHatred And LoveMilitary WeaponsViolence And Cruelty Author:Sima Qian
“Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.” NaturalViolenceIdentityInnovationDisappearQuestsTechnologicalRecourse Author:Marshall McLuhan
“War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.” WarStatesOrderNaturalViolenceConditionsInstrumentsOrganizedTreatmentBehalfAvoidedHygienePathology Author:Philip Bobbitt
“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.” IfsHeartLawReadingIndividualNaturalEnemyPracticeOur LivesViolenceWrittenSecurityTheoryTrainingMethodLaysIntuitionPlotCustomsInstructionAdoptionRobbersIndividual RightsAbsorptionProtecting Ourselves Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.” MenWayMayNaturalViolenceProductsOne WayTechnologicalWay To LiveSchizoid Book:Love and will Source: Love and will
“... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.” WayEnoughNaturalViolenceProveSubstitutesUnnatural Book:Before I Kill More ... Source: Before I Kill More ...
“Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.” PeopleWarTogetherPoliticalChangeNaturalViolenceCrimeDecidedTreatsCrisisClimateClimate ChangeHumanitarianDrivenDisasterOrganizedFewerContinentsGangNatural DisasterOrganized CrimePolitical ViolenceGang Violence Author:Jan Egeland
“As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.” ChildrenCountryTogetherLawEnergyNaturalViolenceUnionsOppressionOur CountrySovietSoviet UnionNatural LawSinister Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.” PeopleGovernmentVoiceNaturalViolenceRebellionSubstitutesDisobedienceCivil Disobedience Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works