Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.


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.


Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.


Violence is my last option.


Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.


Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.


We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

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