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“With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.”

Knows Feels Persons Happens Felt Quality Violence Intellectual Accounts Horse Absolutes Extremes Temper Instruction Cowardice Disgusting Tigers Preference Wrath Sanctions

Author:Lionel Trilling

“There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.”

Firsts Mean Different Form Views Violence Absolutes Currents Rejection Anarchy Anarchism

Book:Anarchy and Christianity

Source: Anarchy and Christianity

“God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.”

“I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.”

Ifs May I Can Evil Violence Possibility Circumstances Degrees Absolutes Focused Defined Justified Because I Can Pacifist

Author:Howard Zinn

“When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.”

People Humans Political Turns Causes Results Violence Racism Hatred Absolutes Supreme Tendencies Privileged Human Society Counterfeit Good Political Privileged Life

Book:Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence”

Suffering Violence Absolutes Torture Humiliation Ostracism

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.”

Acting Violence Absolutes Regimes Colonialism Absolute Power

Author:Nigel Gibson