There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

—Gamal Abdel Nasser

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

 —Daniel Defoe

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

—John F. Kennedy

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

 —Emma Goldman

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

 —James Madison

Though defensive violence will always be “a sad necessity” in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

—Saint Augustine

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

—Mohandas Gandhi

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

 —Chinese Proverb

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

 —Henry C. Wright

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

—Sam Peckinpah

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.                                                     

  —Joseph Heller