„Our age has need of violence,” he writes. And he is violence.“

— Anaïs Nin

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„Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„Disarmament is the ideal of socialism. There will be no wars in and the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a socialist. Dictatorship is state power based directly on violence. And in the twentieth century — as in the age of civilisation generally — violence means neither a fist nor a club, but troops. To put “disarmament” in the programme is tantamount to making the general declaration: We are opposed to the use of arms. There is as little Marxism in this as there would be if we were to say: We are opposed to violence!“
— Vladimir Lenin
„Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.“
— Camille Paglia
„The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother…. He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.“
— Robert Baden-Powell
„At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.“
— Ambrose Bierce