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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionar

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? – J. G. Ballard

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It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence… and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. – Manitonquat

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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph De Maistre

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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. – Abraham Lincoln

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. – John Frederick Boyes

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