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

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

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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. – Isaac Asimov

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. – Isaac Asimov

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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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We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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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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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. – Gandhi

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