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Quotes of the Day for 23 July 2011 – Violence
I'm nearly at a loss for words to describe my reaction to the violence committed at Oslo yesterday. Eighty-seven known dead, probably millions in property damage, and no benefit to anyone, least of all the perpetrator who will certainly spend his life in prison.
The quotes:
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680
The emotional quality of what we moderns call our thought produces an extreme violence of conviction combined with extreme incoherence in our arguments.
- Jacques Ellul, 1912 - 1994
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
- R. D. Laing, 1927 - 1989
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
- Bill Cosby
It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
- Charlotte Brontë, 1816 - 1855
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