Violent Quotes

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

It is perfectly clear that a violent revolution on the part of American blacks would find no sympathy and support from the white population and very little from the majority of Negroes themselves.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me.

The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.