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“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Violence . . . is the last refuge of the incompetent.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” - 1843

“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” - 1843

“Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism—how I hate them!” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.” Plato, “The Republic”

“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem—just to avoid violence.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence—but more generally takes the form of apathy...” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as...” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Old Age” - 44 BC

“Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars . . . War breeds war.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“I have always felt, . . . that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.” Neil Gaiman, “Neverwhere” - 1996

“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an...” Mao Zedong, “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” - 1964

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