Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850)
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent1.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
The only thing that's been a worse flop2 than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez (1941 - )
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable3.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), In a speech at the White House, 1962
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Victory attained4 by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary5.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
Perseverance6 is more prevailing7 than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Lives
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance8; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore9.
Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate10 men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
Thomas Elliot
