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“Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?”

Violence Cost Soil Hegemony Acts Of Violence

Author:Pat Buchanan

“The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.”

Values Violence Cost Increase Dear Stakes Discouraging Fundamentalist Persecuted Desertion

Author:Pascal Boyer

“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.”

People Ifs Trying Ends Moments Character Shows Hurt Violence Involved Cost Glory Impact Meant To Be Entertaining Protagonists Cathartic

Author:Charlie Huston

“I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.”

Feels Stories Violence Cost Hearing Worth It Survived Django Django Unchained

Author:Kerry Washington

“I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.”

Want Should Violence Cost Bites Snakes Bite Me

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.”

Used Force Causes Moral Violence Cost Justification Utopian Elimination

Book:Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Source: Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh

“Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.”

Knows Wells Doe Violence Terrible Cost Succeed Response Territory Provoking Conquest

Book:Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

Source: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.”