Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

A holy violence, a conflict, a warfare, a fight, a soldier’s life, a wrestling, are spoken of as characteristic of the true Christian.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

When someone threatens me, I don’t threaten them back. Bad people don’t respond to threats. They respond to violence. The only time I point a gun at someone is when I’m going to shoot that person.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war.

Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we’ve had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn’t drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don’t think there’s any question that New York City’s very tough laws have reduced violence.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

Wartime compelled some mild-mannered men to contemplate what was once unthinkable.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it

I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. And I really was uncomfortable with many members of our community feeling like they had to strip themselves of their identity in order to mitigate the violence and the fears that they were feeling.

To live in any sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

I’m not affected by violence the way some people are. I don’t know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

If the capitalist class had the sense it is reputed to have, it would know that violence is the worst weapon that can be used against men who have nothing to lose and the world to gain.

If you love with violence and you hate with violence, there’s nothing that can be questioned. People say, ‘Oh, you’d better work through your resentments.’ Yeah, no. I’m gonna hang on to them, and they’re gonna fuel my attack. And they’re going to fuel the battle cry of my deadly and dangerous and secret and silent soldiers. Because they’re all around you. Sorry, you thought you were just messing with one dude. Winning.

If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

Through violence, you may ‘solve’ one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

A conqueror, I say, can change the course of everything, and muffled tyranny is the first thing which is liable to violence.

If you hate violence and don’t believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence, in the end, is rewarded.

The enemy has tried to spread violence. They use violence as a tool to do that.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains (to all Brits), and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

It’s my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence.

The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

I don’t think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain’t got no name on them.

The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.