My friend, Jack Reeves, sent me the following quotes:
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! – Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
We are drowning our youngsters in violence, cynicism and sadism piped into the living room and even the nursery. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter. – Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 1843 - 1918
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize lecture, 1974
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. – Lewis H. Lapham
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. – Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859 - 1930
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. – Frank Herbert, 1920 - 1986
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! – Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
We are drowning our youngsters in violence, cynicism and sadism piped into the living room and even the nursery. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter. – Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 1843 - 1918
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize lecture, 1974
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. – Lewis H. Lapham
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. – Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859 - 1930
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. – Frank Herbert, 1920 - 1986
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