All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. The Law of Love and the Law of Violence
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. Once There Was a War
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. … An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility History as a System
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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