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“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”

“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.”

Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

“In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.”

Made Facts Problem Roles Growing Violence Activity Sake Seeking Symbols Resolve Justification Irrationality

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.”

Certain Enemy Violence Activity Essentials Degrees Mass Crisis Strikes Scales Resistance Combination Revolutionary Camps Provoking Large Scale

Author:Joe Slovo

“Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.”

World Life Is Difficult Violence Activity Instance Heavenly Sweetest Acts Of Love

Book:A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.”

“Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.”

World Together Levels Violence Awareness Activity Raises Impact Around The World Non Violence Decrease Underestimated Save A Life Together We Can Ceasefire

Author:Jeremy Gilley

“The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.”

People Way Children Littles Long Enough Helping Home Lost Moral Violence Crime Activity Police Busy Traffic Automobile Preventing Old Lady Robbery Clergymen Way Home Inquiring Lost Child

Author:Alan Watts

“People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.”

People Stills Strong Term Violence Activity Response Numb

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.”

Want Violence Activity Prose Describing Wartime

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.”

Children Violence Activity Abuse Protection Campaigns

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.”

People States Social Violence Activity Creating Capable Institutions Manage Monopoly

Author:Murray Bookchin

“At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of 'sexual assault' or 'sexual violence,' you and your partner now apparently have to agree on the reason WHY you are making out or having sex. It's not enough to agree to DO it, you have to agree on WHY: there has to be agreement 'regarding the who, what, where, when, why, and how this sexual activity will take place.”

States Reason Enough Sex Violence Activity Agree University Partners Guilty Reason Why Agreement Assault Ohio Sexual Assault Having Sex Ohio State Ohio State University

Author:Rush Limbaugh