1,621 Quotes About Violence

A lion shows his fangs, a man hides his.

Though I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I find it impossible to put myself in the minds of the ancients who devised this orgy of sadism. Even if I had custody of Hitler and could mete out the desert of my choice, it would not occur to me to inflict a torture like that on him.

Revolution is an act of accountability, violence is an act of selfishness.

Violence does beget violence, but the opposite is also true. Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there's no fury facing it.

His keen eye had caught sight of me, and no doubt his breast was burning with revenge on account of his wife having to kiss the kitchen floor.

Indeed, it could occasionally seem that support for the armed struggle was more fervent in Boston or Chicago than it was in Belfast or Derry. The romantic idyll of a revolutionary movement is easier to sustain when there is no danger that one's own family members might get blown to pieces on a trip to the grocery store. Some people in Ireland looked askance at the "plastic Paddies" who urged bloody war in Ulster from the safe distance of America.

There were times that I may have broken the rules for justice.I may have done things that were wrong but it was for the right reasons.

We cannot remove guns once they are made. We can still stop making bullets.2 Oct International Day of Non Violence

Not all bees are loyal to the same hive.