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.

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.

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

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I’m pro Union.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

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.

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

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

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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.

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

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

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.

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

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

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

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 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.

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 hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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

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

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

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.