Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

You can almost be certain that the man who commits violent crimes has been treated violently as a child.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

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

Violence is just where kindness is vain.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Wherever a people has grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

... I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes ...

Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.