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

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Denis Diderot

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
Abdallah II

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

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

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
Pearl Bailey

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
Zakk Wylde

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. Laing

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
David Mamet

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
R. D. Laing

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
Evita Peron

Violence is man re-creating himself.
Frantz Fanon

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney Love

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
Andy Goldsworthy

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
Dick Van Dyke

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
Dick Van Dyke

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
Jet Li

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
Martin Scorsese