We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

The world is too violent right now.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

War is the business of barbarians.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time – 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn’t have toilets in the fields; they didn’t have cold drinking water. They didn’t have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.