I have reason to believe vigilantes grow to like their…

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

— Mahatma Gandhi

This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows…

— Paul Watson

“By calling in the Vigilantes, we are asking them to do what we can’t or won’t do ourselves.”

— Fern Michaels

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that…

— Simon Schama

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

— Lucy Freeman

I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is…

— Markus Zusak

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

— Dalai Lama

Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'.

— Joe Biden

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

— Tom DeLay

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back.”

— Miguel Syjuco

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Joking about violence is not funny.

— Perez Hilton

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that…

— Samuel Adams