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“There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.”

Country Shows Violence Lovers Evidence Built Destructive Brutal Obsessive Clinging

Author:Bob Herbert

“If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.”

Ifs Want Giving Violence Built Village Non Violence

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.”

States Violence Built Saudis Anger And Fear

Author:Robert Lacey

“Nothing enduring can be built on violence.”

Violence Built Endure

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.”

Ifs Imagine Violence Effects Building Built Stones Paris Memorial Newton Register Cubes Indictment

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide with the self-interest of the rest of the world. That's inevitable.”

World Mean Self Interest Violence Built Inevitable Self Interest Collide

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.”

Political Violence Movement Gun Built Enormous Political Power Gun Violence Anti Gun

Author:Chris Murphy