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 Norman Mailer
Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207
