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Therefore, regardless of the root causes of violence, the immediate cause is often a breakdown of self-control.
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“Romantic jealousy is another experience in which people become irrationally oversensitive because of implicit blows to their pride.”
― Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
― Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
“ပန်းချီတို့၊ ပန်းပုတို့၊ ဂီတတို့၊ သီချင်းတို့၊ ကဗျာ ဓာတ်ပုံ စသည်တို့ကို အရသာခံတတ်ရင် Connoisseur ခေါ်တဲ့ အရသာခံတတ်တဲ့ ပညာရှင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်ပါပြီ။ ဒါပေမယ့် သုခုမပညာရှင်က အရသာခံတတ်ရုံတင် မရပ်ပါဘူး၊ မိမိတို့ခံစားရတဲ့ အရသာကိုပဲ ပန်းချီ၊ ပန်းပု၊ ဂီတ၊ လင်္ကာ၊ ဓာတ်ပုံ သီချင်း စသည့် မိမိတို့ အစွမ်းပညာနှင့် သူတပါးတို့ကို အရသာခံနိုင်အောင် တစ်ဆင့် ဖောက်သည် ချတတ်ရပါသေးတယ် (အနုပညာရသ - ဓားတန်းဦးသန့်)”
― ပုံတူမန္တလေး
― ပုံတူမန္တလေး

“How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog’s been humping my skull.”
― Caliban's War
― Caliban's War

“Violent acts follow from high self-esteem, not from low self-esteem. This is true across a broad spectrum of violence, from playground bullying to national tyranny, from domestic abuse to genocide, from warfare to murder and rape. Perpetrators of violence are typically people who think very highly of themselves.”
― Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
― Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

“You do not have to give people reasons to be violent, because they already have plenty of reasons. All you have to do is take away their reasons to restrain themselves.”
― Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
― Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

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