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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? – Alan Paton

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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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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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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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