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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should? — Epictetus

If you say that something is impossible, you take your place amongst the losers, may be not immediately, but definitely for the future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options. — Martin McDonagh

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary. — Omar Bongo

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. — Wendell Berry

Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society. — Rebecca Solnit

Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. — Max Stirner

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state. — Edgar Friedenberg

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. — Peter Shaffer

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here? — Jodi Picoult

Donna fight the darkness, nobody. Embrace it. — Heather R. Blair

Modernity starts with the state monopoly on violence, and ends with the state's monopoly on fiscal irresponsibility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless. — Jorge Luis Borges

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. — Sigmund Freud

Possessiveness isn't love. I'm not even sure it qualifies as an emotion. — Ann Aguirre

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. — Kenneth Kaunda

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general. — Vladimir Lenin

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state. — Robert Lacey

This violent state of mind.
This violent state of mine. — Don Winslow

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. — Scarlett Thomas

Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence. — Matt Ridley

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence. — Mia Bloom

I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal. — David H. Koch

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. — Susan Brownmiller

Worry leads to worry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? — Salman Rushdie

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent. — Llewellyn Rockwell

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings. — Otto Schily

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form. — Mahatma Gandhi

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi

When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation — Allen Ginsberg

No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words Till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords. — William Shakespeare

all who benefit from the inherent violence of the state are implicated in its cruelty. — Karen Armstrong

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. — Mahatma Gandhi