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Violence Quotes

"Violence is the first refuge of the violent."

Aaron Allston, American Novelist

Violence, First

"All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence."

Timothy Radcliffe, English Clergyman

"A terrorist is the most foolish and naÃ¯ve. He is drunk with fixed false beliefs that killing his neighbors will result in going to heaven."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Violence, Terrorist, Foolish, Beliefs

"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."

Norman Mailer, American Novelist

Violence, America, Experts, Spirit

"Violence is the repartee of the illiterate."

Alan Brien, English Novelist

"Violence is a tool of the ignorant."

Flip Wilson, American Comedian

"Violence is my last option."

Chuck Norris, American Actor

"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."

Dick Van Dyke, American Actor

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

Joan Baez, American Musician

"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

"Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me."

Woody Harrelson, American Actor

"If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

Violence, America

"In violence, we forget who we are."

Mary McCarthy, American Author

Violence, Forget

"It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know."

William H. Macy, American Actor

"A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?"

Jack Schwartz, American Scientist

"At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Violence, Fight, Payment, Better, Time

"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."

June Jordan, American Writer

Violence, Nonviolence

"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."

Michael Scheuer, American Public Servant

"I have beaten people into the ground and the more they cry the more of a beating I gave them. If they don't cry, I come off, if they cry then I will beat them and beat them and beat them."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Violence, Brutality, Cruelty, Power

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."

Jean Genet, French Dramatist

"It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan."

Zakk Wylde, American Musician

"I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance."

Justin Sane, American Musician

"Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style."

Frank Bruno, British Athlete

Violence, Harmony, Style, Years

"I have known Hammy for years, he has been shot in the chest twice at point blank range with a sawn off shotgun. The other hard men must have been shocked when he got out the car he was in and chased them with his own hand gun, he has also been stabbed multiple times in prison and out on the rough tough streets of Glasgow but he is still standing."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Violence, Survival, Shot, Stabbed

"I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence."

Kristen Johnston, American Actress

"As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Violence, Motorbike, Attack, Helmet

"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Violence, Woman

"All that violence in the world, we need to stop that."

Wyclef Jean, American Musician

Violence, World

"Nonviolence is fine as long as it works."

Malcolm X, American Activist

Violence, Nonviolence

"There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures."

Bo Derek, American Actress

"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."

James Broughton, American Director

Violence, End, Poets, Sadness, Youth

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