But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. (Quote by - Simon Schama)

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. (Quote by - Ellen Glasgow)

Yasser Arafat left a terrible legacy of violence behind him where people are always acting outside the law. Now, with him gone, everyone is fighting for his power. (Quote by - Eyad Sarraj)

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. (Quote by - George Orwell)

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. (Quote by - Julius K Nyerere)

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

The doll provoked rejection, hatred and violence. (Quote by - Agnes Nairn)

Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)

Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded. (Quote by - Phillip Stubbes)

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. (Quote by - Thurgood Marshall)

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. (Quote by - John Arbuthnot Fisher)

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lee)

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. (Quote by - James MacGregor Burns)

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. (Quote by - Roman Polanski)

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Quote by - George Orwell)

Violence is my last option. (Quote by - Chuck Norris)

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. (Quote by - William Blum)

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. (Quote by - Francis Jeffrey)

The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. (Quote by - Edward Coke)

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. (Quote by - George F. Will)

We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater. (Quote by - Hosni Mubarak)