The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Joan Baez

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.
John Abizaid

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
Sandra Cisneros

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
John Abizaid

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
Dr. Dre

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Salma Hayek

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
Salma Hayek

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
Salma Hayek

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno