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
More Quotes By Erik Christian Haugaard
Those soldiers belonging to the victorious side whose blood has oozed into the ground and whose hearts have ceased beating, have they partaken in the triumph as well as those who are unscarred and busy draining cups of sake to each other's glorious deeds? I...
Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.
I am sure that there is many a young man who would think it a great honor to exchange his name for yours.
The fairy tale belongs to the poor... I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.
Nearly all samurai practice Zen - it is the Way of Enlightenment." "Possibly the light of Zen is so strong that it has blinded me to its virtue." Yoshitoki smiled. "It is very good discipline for the mind, as the martial arts are for the...
