Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIf I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi'Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.'
Natalie MainesWars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate
Jose Luis Rodriguez ZapateroThe FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
Vinny JonesFrustration is the wet nurse of violence.
David AbrahansenThe reality is that if you look at Barcelona tonight they had no yellow cards, Bayern Munich had no yellow card, Liverpool had no yellow card, Valencia had no yellow cards, Roma had no yellow cards but Chelsea have four. Do you think it is violence?
Jose MourinhoViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac AsimovThe main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill CosbyPeople are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.
Caleb Carr...an innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005]
Simon BarnesViolence does even justice unjustly.
Thomas CarlyleWe are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.
Hosni MubarakWe are grateful to him for the tireless and difficult work he carried out unstintingly against all forms of totalitarianism, violence, oppression and moral degradation, all in the name of the values of the Catholic Church, which are the supreme values of human dignity and solidarity. [on Pope John Paul II]
Silvio BerlusconiI ain't never liked violence.
Sugar Ray RobinsonViolence is my last option.
Chuck NorrisI did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
Nelson MandelaSocial justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul III like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney LoveFootball is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger KahnAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnViolence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim MorrisonIn violence, we forget who we are
Mary McCarthyIn Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to drown all mankind except Noah's family. But because that family carried the same genes as those who had drowned, violence continued unabated.
Robert DavisPeace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy ThompsonThere's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
Keith AllenPeace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor BurnsIt is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma GandhiIt seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin ScorseseTelevision nearly always showed the bandits in masks and using violence, but I wanted to go about it in a kind and gentle way.
Peggy BarlowNon-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Please note, this is actually a mis-spelling. For loads of Mahatma Gandhi quotes,
click hereMahatma GhandiNonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King JrThe drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh LatimerThe most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance
Eric AndersonPerseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
PlutarchPower 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.
Hannah ArendtI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma GandhiIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria RilkeBut it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Simon SchamaBusiness is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
Max AmsterdamFrancesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
Jerry Izenberg'A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets.'
- on the link between movies and school violence.
Madeleine StoweI'm a little foolhardy. Dangers of violence - rape, murder - are less frightening than making a living at fashion photography.
Diane ArbusAnswer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
Evita PeronRevenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.
Phillip StubbesKeep violence in the mind
Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
Brian AldissIt [violence] is as American as cherry pie.
H Rap BrownYou have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
Roman Polanski
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