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Quote by Sam Peckinpah
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. – Sam Peckinpah

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Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

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It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

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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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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. – Elbert Hubbard

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