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Violence Quotes

Some quotes and sayings on violence. No we don’t judge. These are famous violence quotes by famous people or some proverbs.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
~Leo Tolstoy

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
~John Milton

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence.
~Cesar Chavez

In violence, we forget who we are
~Mary McCarthy

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
~Chinese Proverb

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
~Salvor Hardin

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
~Pope John Paul II

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
~Jean Genet

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.
~Shirin Ebadi

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
~ George Orwell

Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected
~ Robert Orben

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
~John Arbuthnot Fisher

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
~Albert Camus

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
~Evita Peron

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
~William Blum

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
~Nelson Mandela

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
~Euripides

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

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