Top Violence Quotes

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Violence Definition

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

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

(n.) Ravishment; rape; constupration.

(v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held...

Even though some individual scholars try to tell us there is no direct connection between images of violence and the violence confronting us in our lives, the commonsense truth remains- we are affecte...

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people a chance at an education. When you don't have hope, that's when people start to do weird, horrible,...

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realist...

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be...

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to...

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.

They [left-wingers] willy-nilly throw around the accusation of Nazism and comparisons to Hitler whenever confronted by any opposition, yet they are today's Nazis in their determination to shut down by...

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

On matters where it is difficult or impossible to pin the blame for their policies' failures on conservatives, the fallback position has been to hurl a slur at anyone pointing out the obvious failure....

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Animals fight to get what they want--food, sex, territory, control, etc.--because there are other animals...

No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.