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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Source:
Part III. The Mayors, Chapter 1
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These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Book:
Foundation
Writer:
Isaac Asimov
Genre:
Science Fiction
Published:
1951
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