Violence Quotes

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

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, Lives

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

Adam Smith

The question is no longer between violence and non - Violence it is between non - Violence and non - Existence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi