George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 2 (at page 17)
“When Marinetti founded Futurism in 1909, he called for ‘incendiary violence’ that might drive Italy and Italians out of the ‘fetid somnolence’ of dolce far niente. He incited Futurists and their allies to the destruction of museums, monuments, and universities—to decimate everything that ‘stank of the past’… All of this was suffused with aggression and violence, with an appeal to slaps and blows, to culminate in an invocation to what he called the ‘beauty of battle,’ and the ‘hygiene of war.”
Source: Mussolini’s Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought (2005), pp. 250-51
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement
Original Italian text:
È dall'Italia, che noi lanciamo pel mondo questo nostro manifesto di violenza travolgente e incendiaria, col quale fondiamo oggi il «Futurismo», perchè vogliamo liberare questo paese dalla sua fetida cancrena di professori, d’archeologhi, di ciceroni e d’antiquarii.
Source: 1900's, The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism' 1909, p. 52
“Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction.”
Russell Jacoby (1945) American historian
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 31
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 221.
“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
“He’s not a big man, he’s not a small man, he’s what you might call a handy man.”
Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh (1930) Gaelic games commentator
Famous quotes, 1949
A. J. Muste (1885–1967) Christian pacifist and civil rights activist
Statement of 1941, as quoted in A People's History (1980) by Howard Zinn, p. 416; also in The Twentieth Century : A People's History (2003) by Howard Zinn, p. 159.
