I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

In violence we forget who we are.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

See people with power understand exactly one thing violence.

Violence send deep roots into the heart it has no seasons it is always ripe evergreen.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

If you sucker punch me while Im not looking Id understand. Thats why Im not not looking.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

If you injure your neighbor, better not do it by halves.

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

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

Violence is the language of the inarticulate.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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

You cant talk about fucking in America people say youre dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody thats cool.

I was trying to foment a little dissension. He paused. No thats too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlikeinjecting a little love He snorted. Through violence of course like all religious reformers.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.

plus cest la mme chose plus a change. Nothing endures not a tree not love not even a death by violence.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed at once to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence ginnurtured thrilled every fibre of my frame.

Violence naked force has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

With tybo men there isnt much difference between fucking and killing.

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid persons way of making himself felt because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a sixyearold.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun

Under all conditions well organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace we need love and compassion.

A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrants bloody robe in my face or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.

I had a dream about you last night. We started a shoe company and a competitor probably someone from Nike attacked you so I had to stab them in the throat with a shoelace. I guess it would have been better to use that shoelace to strangle them.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

Moderate strength is shown in violence supreme strength is shown in levity.

They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law they do not hand down sentences they throw thunderbolts they do not condemn kings they drop them back into the void and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.

You can take the barbarian out of the tavern but he can take the blood out of your body.

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

Forgive me O Heavenly Father according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a mans skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several peoples back yards.

My grandpa died yesterday. I ought to know because I shot him. So come join me in the fight against patricide by killing your fathers father.

Death is ordinary. Behold it subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where tomorrow there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22

I hate and fear violence myself have always avoided barroom brawls and tho Im a bit of a gunnut and a member of the NRA I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. In season. And seldom hit either except by accident.

Maxim 27 Dont be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Well cross that bridge when we come to it.Cross it Im making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.Colonel Ceeta amp Captain Tagon

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

When I find the guy who torched that forest Im going to eat him. And Im only going to halfcook him first.Sergeant Schlock

Modern warfare wasnt supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly like eggs in their shells. Mark Vorkosigans first experience with warfare on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him

One tended to lose ones bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness and the more gentle the act the crazier it seemed as if rage and violence being closer to the norm were easier to accommodate.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind Loneliness is a type of violence.

No Wait Ive got a better idea...Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence Sergeant Scholck.And your point is...Lets broaden the definition of necessary.Sergeant Schlock amp Captain Tagon

Honey no offense but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Whatever your objective in life may be never use violence to get it Violence belongs to the Land of Evil once you enter there your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence

I believe that Gandhis views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit not to use violence in fighting for our cause but by nonparticipation in anything you believe is evil.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

If anyone hits me they can expect to be hit back and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesnt work.

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne Through story after story hed led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity its roots sunk deep in pride flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.

Maxim 6 If violence wasnt your last resort you failed to resort to enough of it.The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

No violence gentlemen no violence I beg of you Consider the furniture

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever

I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then.

Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa intoned Opal finishing her chant. Peace be inside me tolerance all around me forgiveness in my path. Now Mervall show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

I always ask myself one question what is human What does it mean to be human Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

Were this big melting pot but someone turned up the heat too high and the stew started to burn. Gangs crime fights and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

But before he could either comfort me or commit further acts of violence upon my person I spun away from him and made my drama queen moment complete by running away.

He who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory its after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal their souls had sustained a damage beyond compensation

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it the simmer the sense of some unpredictable force that might at any moment break loose and do something terrible. Burnside p. 27

There is a comfort in conformity a security in control that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the everpresent fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.

If a violent person wishes to attack us let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

In light of all the gun violence in the USA Id prefer my democracy unleaded.

Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

En chacun de nous existe un Mr Hyde le tout est dempcher que les conditions dmergence du monstre ne soient rassembles.

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

I will see my father in every anger.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north a mans accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that Mariam.

When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms General.Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

To paraphrase several sages Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

I forgive you I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one.

It is not right, my fellow countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, it

The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

What deep violence does the mind invent As polar opposite to love. In Hat Love.

...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...

...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...

Have an apple. Its bruised. I beat the hell out of it.

The spirit of the law is the least of the things were prepared to violate.Sergeant Schlock

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe thats just what Ill do. Its this kind of regard for others that makes me believe Id be a good politician.

Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.

Everything stayed hidden it was all secret known by anyone who cared to know but unacknowledged like a priests feverish brightness around adolescent boys or the beatings Mrs Wilson endured on those Saturdays when Dumfermline lost at homep. 8384

I get it said the prisoner. Good Cop Bad Cop eh If you like. said Vimes. But were a bit short staffed here so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth

Some day my son you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you good night.

“There are many ways to die Nathaniel. Tell me now and you die quickly. Lie to me again and I will make your last hours on earth, seem like an eternity in hell.”An Unlikely Gangster

Never on me let such wrath lay hold as the wrath you cherish you whose valor causes harm

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself how could you kill anybody

Im a combat specialist and marriage counselor.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

It was a strange monster for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes the power of those knobbly hands was labors historic threat of violence against capital.

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well that and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.

Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfhigen.

I went to a football game once and got punched in the face but you couldnt tell because I was already sitting in the nosebleed section.

Repeat one word of what I just said and Ill cheerfully beat you to death Mike.

Never scorn a woman. They get violent.

Judging by the sounds of general panic I want a gun like that.Sergeant Schlock

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. Hes tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption.

I had a romance novel inside me but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

For every fatal shooting there were roughly three nonfatal shootings. And folks this is unacceptable in America.

Violence is as American as cherry pie

Maxim 12 A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way shoot it in the head.The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Get what you can with words because words are free but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.