Quotes 41 till 60 of 66.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
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The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
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The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003) -
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
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Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
Table-Talk (1824) -
We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
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We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
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Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.
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