Hermann Hesse Quotes
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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BJP is the mothership of violence.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.
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I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.
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If boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh.
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I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
