Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer

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

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Virginia Woolf

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Ron Paul

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
Ron Paul

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Gloria Steinem

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Quentin Tarantino

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Dean Koontz

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
Dean Koontz

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
Dean Koontz

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.
Steve Irwin

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
Euripides

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
Jackie Chan

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
Spike Lee

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce