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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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We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. – George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"

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If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. – Jack Nicholson

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Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun – Don Henley

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