America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.

But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn’t equal strength.

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and...

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths – we may be...

The object I stabbed him with was all bloody. Fortunately for him, the blood was on the tampon before I stabbed him, and not a result of the stabbing.

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician.

I’ll bet I could find some hurtful words in a pile of sticks and stones. Something like an insincere and deceptive “I love you.

What do you think? Overkill?I don’t believe there is any such thing.But in this case, ‘yes, overkill.’-Sergeant Schlock & Petey

Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Only victors have stories to tell,we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.

Walk away from every vicious act. Never look back.

Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of...

I don’t get you people. You watch the Godfather on television and tons of people are getting shot and stabbed to death, blood splattering everywhere and it is entertaining. But, when they killed a horse,...

When you’ve committed yourself to violence it takes an almost inhuman effort to stop short. It’s one of those things that once you’ve started need to be finished, rather like coitus, interrupting that’s a sin,...

Violence has its fingerprints on everything. It’s affecting everything and every activity.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

But people like the doll guy who sells women and the dog guy who buys women, and other guys who, say, rape women, or maybe don’t go as far as violent rape but treat women...

A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watcha Christ go up in flames, smiling,as if he were a hookedfish, a felled antelope, some wild thing tied to boards and...

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

The figures do not take into account that there has been no significant violence in northern Uganda since 2003.

J’ai entendu tant de raisonnements qui ont failli me tourner la tête, et qui ont tourné suffisamment d’autres têtes pour les faire consentir à l’assassinat, que j’ai compris que tout le malheur des hommes venait...

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

It isn’t a coincidence that the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat happened after September 11. Gujarat is also one place where the toxic waste of the World Trade Center is being dumped right now. This...

People who don’t have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to hold violence, you are strong enough to hold true to your pact. Then...

Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked...

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with rhythm and blues: He’s found (ingeniously) a way to take what is ragged...

Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she’d been on. The last...

If history shows anything, it is that there’s no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it...

It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War’s End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again....

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy.They can get in line behind the police, the people whose cars we trashed, the Empire of Ob’enn, the Partnership Collective,...

The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked ‘release of frustration.’

Even now when I’m furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the ground. That solves nothing I know, and I spent a lot of time understanding my...

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice...

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

y lo que ha dicho el fiscal es que un hombre no debe morir por tan poca cosa

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 killed – on a massive scale is responsible for a lot of...

Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.