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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggressi

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. – Lewis H. Lapham

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

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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. – Edward Bond

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