Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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