But the Egyptian passion for violence, for killing the…

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

— Roy Wilkins

In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before…

— Thomas Sowell

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness to be…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Violence is not only killing people. Violence is an attitude, an approach. Gandhi was trying to impose his ideology on his son. This is…

— Osho

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