Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy
Even a peaceful person should know what violence is when necessary. Otherwise, the peace they possess is left to the mercy of the person who threatens them.Miyamoto Musashi
A peaceful man must still know violence, or his peace belongs to whoever threatens it.Miyamoto Musashi
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.Joan Baez
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.Mahatma Gandhi
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.Henry Louis Mencken
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.Martin Luther King, Jr.
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.Hunter S. Thompson
I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?Otto Dix
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.Andrea Dworkin
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.Voltaire
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.John Leonard
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.Mike Tyson
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.Larry Wall
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.Mahatma Gandhi