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| An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. | | Salvor Hardin | |
| Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms. | | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 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. | | Bob Dylan | |
| He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence | | Samuel Johnson | |
| I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanisation of feelings, then the ultimate develop | | Arthur Miller | |
| If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves peaceably at all times, regardless of government attacks and persecutions u | | Nelson Mandela | |
| It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi | | Nelson Mandela | |
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| Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected | | Robert Orben | |
| No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short | | Thomas Hobbes | |
| People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. | | George Orwell | |
| The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitat | | Nelson Mandela | |
| The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11). | | Bible | |
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| Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. | | Ellen Glasgow | |
| Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them. | | Bible | |
