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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open viole

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph De Maistre

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The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. – Henry C. Wright, The Liberator, 7 April 1837

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

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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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