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[Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their mystery had been discharged and the sexual power they instilled in him had dulled... Women were his prey. He was the Minotaur. These were bloody, indecent bullfights from which he always emerged the dazzling victor. ↗

— Marina Picasso

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There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. ↗

— Mao Tse-tung

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The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. ↗

— John Lennon

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If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem. ↗

— George Harrison

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Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. ↗

— Chris Hedges

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He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old. ↗

— Robert Muchamore

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