Violence Quotes

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. (Plutarch)
Violence,” came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. View quote
George Orwell
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
In violence, we forget who we are. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. View quote
Erich Fromm
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Poverty is the worst form of violence. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. (John Lennon)
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. View quote
George Will
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. View quote
Joan Baez
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
This violence is a calm that disturbs you. View quote
Jean Genet
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts. View quote
Livy
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. View quote
Alice Walker
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. View quote
Ronald David Laing
Keep violence in the mind where it belongs. View quote
Brian Aldiss
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness? (Sally Struthers)
Wrestling is ballet with violence. View quote
Jesse Ventura
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. View quote
George Orwell
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. View quote
Bob Dylan
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. View quote
Martin Scorsese