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“Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.”

World Way Has Beens Violence Begets

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”

Mean War Use Used Peace Violence Dirty Wages Begets Degrading Dirty Business

Author:A. J. Muste

“I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.”

Thinking Way Ends Violence Conflict Solve Begets

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.”

Ifs Men Heart Doe Whole Enjoy Cases Violence Type Return Citizens Offers Gun Agree Fellows Interviews Endeavor Earnest Bleeding Begets Bleeding Heart

Author:Jeff Cooper

“Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.”

People Knows Love Government Peace Violence Violent Murderer Begets Peace Love

Author:John Lennon

“The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.”

Common Half Violence Score Begets

Book:COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

“There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.”

Violence Nasty Begets

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.”

Firsts Long Violence Blood Sight Wine Crowds Cups Thirst Begets

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.”

People Children War Seems House Parent Violence Arms Industry Losing Terrorism Destroyed Begets War On Terror War On Terrorism Juncture

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there are so many ruptures and disturbances in childhood that imprint themselves on us. Attachment begets trauma, in that broader sense, and so if we've ever been dependent on anyone, I think there is an Imago blueprint in us somewhere.”

Ifs Thinking Violence Childhood Trauma Dependent Treatment Attachment Abandonment Begets Disturbance Blueprints Childhood Trauma Rupture Molestation

Author:Melissa Febos