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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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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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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. – Marshall Rosenberg

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

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