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CULTURE
OF VIOLENCE
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The
sad truth is that most evil is done by people who
never make up their minds to be either good or evil.
-- Hannah
Arendt
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Violence
is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-- Isaac
Asimov
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If
it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into
training to learn how?
--Joan
Baez
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There
have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible
violence occurred but for which the word violence was
never used...Violence is shrouded in justifying myths
that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the
most part kept people from recognizing the violence for
what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake
never for one moment thought of their act as violence;
rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated
righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence
we humans have ever committed.
--Gil Bailie
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"For
most of recorded history, parental violence against
children and men's violence against wives was explicitly
or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to
prevent and/or punish this violence through religion,
law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. …..The
reason violence against women and children is finally
out in the open is that activists have brought it
to global attention."
-- Riane
Eisler |
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It
is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that
is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want
excitement
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Violence
is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very
fabric of society.
-- Pope John Paul II
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"Strange
how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture
chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill
them with pride!"
-- Bertha
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Men
are so accustomed to maintaining external order by
violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible
without violence.
-- Leo
Tolstoy |
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We
challenge the culture of violence when we our selves act
in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable,
that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling
to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that
it's still valid.
-- Gerard Vanderhaar
