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The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

The world is too violent right now.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

I was born in 1960 into a more violent America than we had in 2014. We haven't been in such a good place for more than 50 years.