You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. (Quote by - Sam Peckinpah)

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. (Quote by - Henri Nouwen)

Education is a vaccine for violence. (Quote by - Edward James Olmos)

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. (Quote by - Anais Nin)

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. (Quote by - H. G. Bohn)

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. (Quote by - Jim Morrison )

Violence is a calm that disturbs you. (Quote by - Jean Genet)

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

We're trying not to get caught up in the madness -- the violence, the looting and fires. (Quote by - Melinda Shiraki)

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. (Quote by - Jean Genet)

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. (Quote by - Woody Harrelson)

Domestic violence is America's hidden war. And the battleground is in all our homes. (Quote by - Michelle Bussolotti)

In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. (Quote by - Hubert Geroid Brown)

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005] (Quote by - Simon Barnes)

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them! (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. (Quote by - Euripides)

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? (Quote by - Alan Paton)