Violence Quotes

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Hebrew Prove

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson