Thoughts of Famous Violence Quotes in English

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H. Lapham

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolute night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.

Hannah Arendt

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.

Virgil

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw

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

If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.

- Kurt Vonnegut

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

Bobby Seale

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

- Thomas Elliot

Violence Quotes List

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

- Lao Tzu

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Jim Morrison Quotation

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

A Quotation From Bill Cosby

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

- Muhammad Ali

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

- Violence Quotes in English by Malcom X

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

- Ben Elton

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In violence, we forget who we are.

Mary Mccarthy

Return not violence for violence.

Abu Hanifa

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Frantz Fanon

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

Joseph Conrad

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

Teresa Giudice

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

Iris Murdoch

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.
These two things are one.

- Wallace Stevens

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Francis Jeffrey

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

- Susan Sontag

Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be.

- Kate Atkinson

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Marquis De Sade

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

- John Lennon

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

- Naomi Klein

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Lucretius

At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem it just creates new one.

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Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

Chris Hedges

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

Haruki Murakami

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

- R.D. Laing

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

- Max Stirner

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

- G.K. Chesterton

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

Pat Conroy

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.

- Mary Horlock

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

- Anthony Burgess

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Pearl Bailey

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

- Violence Quotes by Francis Jeffrey

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

- Mother Teresa

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

Glen Duncan

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow *

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

Edward Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy Download or Share

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Martin Luther Sayings Download or Share

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

- Nelson Mandela Quotation Download or Share

In violence we forget who we are.

- Mary Mccarthy Sayings Download or Share

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

- Isaac Asimov Download or Share

Violence is the problem, not the solution.

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Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

- Milan Kundera Download or Share

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi Download or Share

Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.

Derek Landy Download or Share

Violence is the last word of the illiterate. Also the first.

Solomon Short Download or Share

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

- Mahatma Gandhi Download or Share

Violence Quotation in English

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri Nouwen

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

- Malcom X

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- George Orwell

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Robert J. Sawyer

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence is like a strong perfume. It may seem good from afar, but as soon as you get close it's sickening.

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

Benito Mussolini

Violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

- Louis L'Amour

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

Lord Byron

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Jim Morrison

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

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

- Violence Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

- Jim Morrison

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

- Bertrand Russell

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Malcolm X

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Saint Augustine

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

- Tom Robbins

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.

- Brian K. Vaughan Thoughts

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- E.F. Schumacher Thought

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

- Alexander Berkman

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

- Flannery O'Connor

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

- Khaled Hosseini

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Dave Barry

But before he could either comfort me or commit further acts of violence upon my person, I spun away from him and made my drama queen moment complete by running away.

- Rachel Hawkins

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

Edward Bond

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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.

Hannah Arendt

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Russell Hoban

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

Ban Ki-moon