People who get violent get that way because they can’t communicate.
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
When we substitute threat for an argument, violence for principle, we allow our passion to overcome our capacity for reason. Passion and self-interest are threats to liberty.
I now understand that under certain circumstances that violence is necessary.
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