Violence Quotes
Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.
- Max Amsterdam
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Anonymous
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson
On the path to the greatest nemesis, two enemies will walk together.
- Slade Whitfield
Force is not a remedy.
- John Bright
Violence is my last option.
- Chuck Norris
In violence, we forget who we are.
- Mary McCarthy
For peace, we must prepare for war.
- Bobby Jagdev
Violence does even justice unjustly.
- Thomas Carlyle
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
- Martin Luther
Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.
- David Abrahansen
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
- H G Wells
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
- Jetli
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
- Dr. Martin Luther
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
- John Milton
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.
- Julius K Nyerere
Nonviolence doesn’t always work – but violence never does.
- Madge Micheels
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
- Alice Walker
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
- Chinese Proverb
In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence.
- Cesar Chavez
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
— John Gregory Dunne
Non cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
- Bill Cosby
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
- John Frederick
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
- Jim Morrison
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non violence.
- Albert Camus
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
- John Paul
Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
- Evita Peron
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
- James MacGregor Burns
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.
- Jose Luis
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
- Louis Lamour
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
- George Will
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent,and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- Sir Arthur Conan
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Dr. Martin Luther
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
- John Ruskin


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