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How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.
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civil-rights
disunity
race-issues
violence
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John Howard Griffin |
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f0b284f
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It's just an old fella. Mostly bald. Walking dainty like his feet's tender. And still singing. With some things in his hand. He puts them down on a drum. Sits on a milk crate in the shade. Pulls on a pair of gumboots. Then he snatches up the things from beside him and shuffles out in the sun and leans against the verandah post and I see him clear enough. Singlet. Baggy arse shorts. Thick specs. He's short and thick this fella. Red in the face. And that stuff in his hand, it's a knife and steel. He looks around, kind of slow and lazy. Stops singing then and just hums a minute while he hones the knife. And he knows how to freshen up a blade, that I can see straight up.
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irony
music
violence
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Tim Winton |
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cf06fb9
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"Con un coltello, un coltellino, in un giorno di festa, tra le due e le tre, si uccisero i due uomini dell'amore. Con un coltello, un coltellino che lo contiene una mano, ma che penetra sottile fra le carni stupite, e si ferma nel punto
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death
italiano
poetry
violence
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Federico García Lorca |
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5a48681
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Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.
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decisions
ethics
violence
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Peter Singer |
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184504e
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"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"
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violence
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Alice Walker |
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fdc8727
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All Sam Peckinpah ever did in his movies was show that getting hit on the chin doesn't sound like [makes a small popping noise]. When one grown man hits another grown man in the face, it splatters like an overripe tomato. And it's not fun getting killed. It's bloody and gory and altogether unpleasant. That's all Sam Peckinpah ever did.
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film
movies
sam-peckinpah
violence
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Harry Crews |
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91faff9
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In keeping with your policy of bringing Pollution the latest in death and violence, and in living colour, there's going to be something entirely different... death without remediation.
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christine-chubbuck
colour
death
living
policy
pollution
pop-culture
remediation
television
violence
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Rebecca McNutt |
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04e851b
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In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.
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technology
violence
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Colson Whitehead |
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95d2033
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His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.
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regret
space
violence
war
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James S.A. Corey |
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0dcfc82
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Murder was a fascination as always.
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distraction
entertainment
mortality
violence
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Erik Larson |
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51cccea
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At that moment Sonny noticed that the other car had not kept going but had parked a few feet ahead, still blocking his way. At that same moment his lateral vision caught sight of another man in the darkened tollbooth to his right. But he did not have time to think about that because two men came out of the car parked in front and walked toward him. The toll collector still had not appeared. And then in the fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone he knew he was a dead man. And in that moment his mind was lucid, drained of all violence, as if the hidden fear finally real and present had purified him.
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murder
poetry
violence
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Mario Puzo |
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a0a64be
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Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane.
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insanity
violence
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Douglas Preston |
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1c9fa21
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A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets - which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.
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ethics
violence
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Peter Singer |