“People tend to romanticize nature, and to connect it to an earlier time, a more innocent time. They don’t give the natural world credit for being a place of great violence, the fight for survival on the part of animals, the unpredictability and destructiveness of a storm, or of the ocean.” — Carl Phillips, “The Art of Poetry No. 103,” The Paris Review (Spring 2019)
“Nothing can be more violent and merciless than a group of true believers, no matter what they choose to believe.” — Dee Hock, Autobiography of a Restless Mind
“The cause of atrocities is generally the violence of Fear.” — John Galsworthy, “The Black Godmother,” Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays
“’Violence,’ came the retort, ‘is the last refuge of the incompetent.’” — Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools.” — H. Rider Haggard, Dawn
“The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100
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