Commit Quote by Lucretius

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

— Anonymous

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to…

— Flannery O'Connor

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast…

— Virgil

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

— Tacitus

“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects.…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Violence recoils on the violent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

— Leo Tolstoy

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

— John Dryden

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and,…

— Samuel Johnson

Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to…

— John Henrik Clarke