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

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

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.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

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

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

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

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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.

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.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

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.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

‚1984‘ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

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

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

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

War is a contagion.

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.

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

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

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.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

War settles nothing.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

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.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

War is the business of barbarians.

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

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I don’t think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort – again, referring to Fox Broadcasting – to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.