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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

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.

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.

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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

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

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

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

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.

I’m pro Union.

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.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

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

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

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.

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.

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.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

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

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.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

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

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.

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

War settles nothing.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‚The A-Team‘ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

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.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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

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

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.