#violence

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#distinguished #men #rather #than #their

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#ethics #evolution #goal #harming #highest

You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now. ↗

— Mike Fink

#lucky #me #non-violence #now #pain

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing. ↗

— Milos Forman

#communist #countries #films #know #literature

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ↗

— Max Stirner

#crime #individual #law #own #state

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us. ↗

— Edmund Leach

#barriers #because #beings #between #comes

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. ↗

— Norman Lear

#country #excess #per #repetition #violence

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts. ↗

— Titus Livius

#does #fortune #her #men #she

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ↗

— Lucretius

#falling #hole #make #oft #rain

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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