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.

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

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

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

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

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

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.

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.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

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

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.

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.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

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.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

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.

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

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

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

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.

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

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.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

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

War is the business of barbarians.

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

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

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

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

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

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.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

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.

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.

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

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