Anthony Scaramucci

Can violence ever truly end?

Or does it simply change form?

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Well, I mean, and that's what they say about civilizations.

They say that civilization started zero and zero is where the civilizations evolve and has sentience, but it also has violence.

And so the question is, how long do you need to go through evolution before you realize that the violence is not the answer and if anything, we can evolve.

The phrase is actually associated with Robert Kennedy and he quoted it in an extemporaneous speech in Indianapolis

on the night of Martin Luther King Jr.

's assassination.

So it was April 4th, 1968.

He was beside himself.

And it's actually paraphrased from Aeschylus, the great Greek tragedian.

Right, I know the phrase you're talking about.

Please continue.

Yeah, but the quote is, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Ah.

He used the version of it again, and it was carved into his grave at Arlington.