Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it. (Quote by - Nicolas Gomez Davila)

The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch. (Quote by - Vinny Jones)

The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies. (Quote by - R. A. Pinker)

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us. (Quote by - Edmund Leach)

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. (Quote by - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. (Quote by - H G Wells)

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. (Quote by - John Milton)

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest. (Quote by - William O. Douglas )

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. (Quote by - Norman O. Brown)

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed! (Quote by - Monty Python)

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say (Quote by - Martin Luther)

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Non-violence is the article of faith. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. (Quote by - Frank Herbert)

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. (Quote by - Lewis H. Lapham)

To me, this would be out of character for him. Even though he had a past record, it had nothing, no type of violence or anything in it that I know toward women. (Quote by - Addie Harris)

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period. (Quote by - Josi Ortega y Gasset)

Public opinion is now overwhelmingly on our side as it becomes clearer every day that this occupation itself is the source of the violence in Iraq. (Quote by - Dustin Langley)

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony? (Quote by - Pat Buchanan)

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. (Quote by - Issac Asimov)