Thursday, April 19, 2007

Gazing Into The Abyss


The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
-Proverbs 10:11

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
-Jim Morrison

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
-William Sloan Coffin

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
-Martin Luther King

In violence, we forget who we are.
-Mary McCarthy

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-Isaac Asimov

He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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