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The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
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A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
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Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
A Distant Mirror -
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
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During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
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Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent... in that way.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds .
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
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If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
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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.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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