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Letter "V" » Violence
«It?s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It?s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can?t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor?s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.»
«I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.»
«Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.»
Author: Norman Thomas
(Social Reformer)
| About:
Violence,
War
| Keywords:
businessman, Kennedy, nuclear war
«It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.»
Author: Ted Kennedy
| About:
Peace,
Violence,
War
| Keywords:
corps, Marine, Marines, Peace Corps, send in
«I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Alcohol,
Drugs,
Insanity,
Violence
| Keywords:
advocate, alcohol, insanity, The Advocate, worked
«It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands»
Author: Andre Gide
| About:
Army,
Persuasion,
Violence
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, decent, fall from, fellows, massacre, persuade, The Soldier, urged
«I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
appears, do good, object, permanent, temporary, violence
«It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
cloak, cloaked, cloaking, cover, impotence, nonviolence, put on, violent
«It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves peaceably at all times, regardless of government attacks and persecutions u»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Country,
Peace,
Violence
| Keywords:
attacks, conducted, consistently, followed, liberation, organizations, peaceably, persecutions, regardless, well known
«It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Government,
Violence
| Keywords:
indefensible, picket, picketing, political organization, repudiate, repudiated, repudiates, Repudiating
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