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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? – Alan Paton

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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. – Alan Paton

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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. – Alan Paton

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In violence we forget who we are. – Mary McCarthy

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

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I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948), in Young India, 1925

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

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