Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

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.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

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.

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

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

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.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

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

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

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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

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

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

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

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

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

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

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

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.

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

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

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.

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

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

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

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

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

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

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

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

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.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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

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.

The world is too violent right now.

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

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