Capacity Quote by Ralph Steadman

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

— Leo Tolstoy

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

— Patrick Stewart

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

— Pierre Trudeau

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

— Andrea Dworkin

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

— Dan Simmons

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

— Rod Lurie

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

In any case he can not justify violence.

— Mak_786

One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is…

— Jeff Cooper

... 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

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright