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In violence we forget who we are. - Mary McCarthy

In violence we forget who we are. – Mary McCarthy

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You musnt force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. – Mary McCarthy

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work
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Mary McCarthy
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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. – Mary McCarthy

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Other Quotes from
Violence
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Violence

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

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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Violence

Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair…. – Stuart Brown

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Violence

Random Quotes

Its always funny until someone gets hurt. Then its just hilarious. – Bill Hicks

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funny

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. – Arthur Erickson

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Change

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. – Peter Ustinov

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Daughters

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. – John Kemeny

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Math