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“I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.”

Humans Violence Method Instinct Artistic Barbarians

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

“A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!”

People Mind Doe States Violence Type Exercise Demand Worship Method Threat Knees Idols Superstitions Woe Compulsion Coercion Fashionable

Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

“In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.”

World Hard Facts Earth Faces Animal Gone Violence Method Species Ill Warm Defense Monsters Sensitive Prize Shells World History Armor

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.”

Law Nations Grows Nature Perfect Violence Blood Divine All Things Method Rounds Grass

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.”

World Use Violence Method Subtle Ants

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.”

Causes Secret Violence Fairs Murder Method All Time Unfair

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

Ifs Enemy Our Lives Violence Method Plot Robbers Protecting Ourselves

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.”

Form Fighting Violence Method Activism Contemporary Idealist Overwork

Book:Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

“Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!”

Men Way Violence He Man Tools Method Cruelty Primitive Aggression Savages Barbarians Bloodshed Civilised

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action”

Mean Doe Action Evil Principles Struggle Creative Violence Building Demand Hatred Method Active Oppression Compromise Courageous Passive Using Me Acquiescence Disunity

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.”

Violence Particular Circumstances Method Commit Nevertheless Justified

Author:Dalai Lama

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

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