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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Isaac Asimov

Other quotes by Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. – Isaac Asimov

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Knowledge
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Isaac Asimov
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John Daltons records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov

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War
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Other Quotes from
Violence
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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

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Violence

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

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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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

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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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Fear

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. – Hugh Mackay

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Change

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. – Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

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Language

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. – Martin Heidegger

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Time