We enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked to reduce it, and so we should work to reduce the violence that remains in our time.
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
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Chris Hedges
A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.
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Steven Galloway
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
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Naomi Klein
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.
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Brian K. Vaughan
As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her treasure the brains with which they were spattered. I have seen a janitor's...
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Anonymous
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The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics...
Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people...
We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.
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