I shook my head. “I’m good, Nicky helped.”Nicky looked at Edward. “She’s having one of those what-if-killing-feels-really-good, doesn’t-that-make-me-a-bad-person moments.” Edward nodded as if that made perfect sense. “Then it feels good. We can’t really control...

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

So does he condone clinic violence or does he not?

Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are are going to answer my question.

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

I can kill a bad guy, but I can’t save anyone. I’m not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.

You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.””And there’s a lot to be said for knocking...

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an...

The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped...

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

He is being investigated for allegations of threatening violence, excessive use of force, possession of maybe an illegal weapon and violating the electoral process.

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

I chose not to fight it. Eating them…is my revenge.

The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true “peace...

I often find myself in a room full of strangers, and very often it’s a tough crowd. But I’m a master networker, so for me, prison isn’t such a big deal. A smile extends much...

We can’t win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as...

A day came when I should have died,and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral. If one man has no right to impose his wishes on another, then ten million men have no right to impose their wishes on the...

Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim–in fact, the majority–who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their...

—¡,Me buscabais?!—Así es, Gryal Ibori.—¡Pues aquí me tenéis! —gritó furioso, con el alma ardiente y la voz quebrada. Estaba cansado de todo y de todos. Sólo quería ver a Lorette, reunirse con ella y estar...

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.

There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can’t help break now and then on TV

I don’t really know a whole lot about complicated, worldly things. But I think parents and siblings, they need to be able to care for each other unconditionally. How many people could you risk your...

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won’t let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won’t have to be violent.

The idea that we are physical beings descended from primeval cells in nutrient soups, that idea does violence to my intuition, stomps all over it with football-shoes. The idea that we are descended from a...

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part – a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty...

The absolute defining moment of my life was the day the drug deal went bad. It started out just like any other day, at least for the girlfriend of a dealer. However, this time, it...

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women...

It is a terrible thing to witness death by violence, a thousand times worse to hold a man’s life in your own hands and to willingly, consciously take it from him. Acknowledged or not, something...

It appears that the level of violence was well below the last election.

The prime minister continues to demonize us. We will continue to pray and to resist, but we will do all of these things without violence. The real violence is destroying homes and throwing out the...

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent crime. Violence requires all different kinds of energy, and most drug addicts like to expend their energy not on...

Violence should have no place in life but within the pages of an engaging novel.

These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of...

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

[Merlin – on realizing the he’d killed a man with his magic.]It was easy. It shouldn’t have been so easy to do something so big. … So final…[Gaius] …Oh Merlin! With magic or without it...

No! Wait! I’ve got a better idea…””Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.””And your point is…””Let’s broaden the definition of ‘necessary’.”-Sergeant Schlock & Captain Tagon

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.