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Definition of Violence
Violence

The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

Ravishment; rape; constupration.

To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

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Violence Quotations

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mohandas Gandhi

Violence Translations

violence in Dutch is geweldpleging, geweld
violence in French is violence
violence in Norwegian is overtredelse
violence in Spanish is violencia, poderio

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