Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

Violence is my last option.
Chuck Norris

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

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

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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
George W. Bush

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani

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

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

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

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Emile M. Cioran

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

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

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert