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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

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

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

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

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. -E. F. Schumacher.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

Domestic and social violence usually starts off with a few angry words and a few hurt feelings that don't get resolved, then escalates into feelings of betrayal, rage and revenge. Inner feelings of rage soon spill over into all aspects of society. Social stress multiplies daily with every new report of political upheaval, child abuse, drug abuse, workplace violence, children bringing guns to school, homelessness, ethnic wars or some other crisis. The root cause of a lot of these social stresses is the inner violence created by dysfunctional communication between the heart and the mind. As social stress increases, we're faced with a choice: Retreat into fear and isolation, become angry and bitter, try to ignore it all, or take responsibility for our own stress reactions. Bobby Jagdev For peace, we must prepare for war. Slade Whitfield -Doc Childre.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Salvor Hardin.

These violent delights have violent ends.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.