I always forget that you have seen far more violence than…

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever…

— John Constable

“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of…

— Mark Ellis

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from…

— Paul Dini

'Pompeii' will be PG-13. I think it has to have a level of violence and death in it because you've got a volcano exploding.…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

... 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