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“Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.”

“Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.”

Democracy Violence Degrees

Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“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

“I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.”

Ifs May I Can Evil Violence Possibility Circumstances Degrees Absolutes Focused Defined Justified Because I Can Pacifist

Author:Howard Zinn

“The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.”

Persons Stills Fall Passion Felt Emotion Violence Mankind Degrees Empathy Concerned Spectators Sympathetic Sufferers

Book:Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

“The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.”

People Ideas Country Whole Humanity Fighting Violence Degrees Hollywood Bases Complexes Corruption Deny Impulse Tension Conception Tibetan Lama Tibet Dalai

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“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

“I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.”

Thinking Violence Higher Degrees Series Concentration Calmer

Author:Rineke Dijkstra

“I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.”

Writing States Spirit Party Violence Degrees Newspapers Vulgarity

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of violence that once such violence is created there's no more room for reflection. And there's no mediating position. If you look at Bosnia today, the Croats, Bosnians and Serbs, they've all created so much horror that one starts to wonder how these peoples can live together, after having done what they have. Already the violence has reached such a degree that everybody is living in hate, there's no possibility of reflection, no mediating position.”

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Author:Catherine Camus

“More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.”

Country Use Natural Poverty Democracy Violence Military Willing Degrees Resources Female Access Violent Natural Resources Indicators

Author:Gloria Steinem