1,621 Quotes About Violence

It's better to look at a black and white world, rather than black and blue.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

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

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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