When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.
Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
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