1,621 Quotes About Violence

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

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.

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

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.

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

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