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“The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.”

Men Giving Persons Violence He Man Creatures Authority Fellows Command Acknowledge Submit Compliance

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.”

Age Sex Emotion Violence Conditions Particular Baby Creatures Remarkable Sentiments Babe Antipathy

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.”

Feels Years Children Body Violence Creation Objects Creatures Increase Fellows Bullying Agony Torment Worms Pins Compunction

Author:Laetitia Pilkington

“If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!”

Ifs Men Violence Creatures Degrees Lows Violent Peaceful Degrade Non Violent

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.”

Realizing Violence Cold Creatures Normal Peaceful Wilderness Starvation Peaceful Life

Book:African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

Source: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist