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Violence Quotes and Quotations
 It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.  Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs. Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse. Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions. Violence is just, where kindness is vain. It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder. Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness. Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. Today violence is the rhetoric of the period. 
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