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Quotations by Subject: Violence
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.: Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850)
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
The only thing that's been a worse flop 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 inevitable.: 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 attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.: 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 - )
Perseverance is more prevailing 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 abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.: 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 differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.: Thomas Elliot


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