Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

-Aldiss, BrianWilson
  Barefoot in the Head,'Charteris'.

Who can I tear to pieces, if not my friends?† If they were not my friends, I could not do such violence to them.

-Bacon, Francis
Quoted in  John Russell Francis Bacon (1979).

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

-Bennett, Alan
  FortyYears On (published1969), act 2. Snobbery With Violence was used as a book title by Colin Wilson (1971).

He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 53:8^9.

Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place of Christendom.

-Elizabeth I
  Speech to a parliamentary delegation, 5 Nov. Quoted in Christopher Haigh Elizabeth I (1988).

Body-line was not an incident, it was not an accident, it was not a temporary aberration. It was the violence and ferocity of our age expressing itself in cricket.

-James, C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert)
  Beyond the Boundary.

Violence is a lie, for it goes against the truth of our faith, the truth of our humanity† Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroysthevery fabric of society.On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence.

-PopeJohn Paul II originally Karol Jozef Wojtyla
  Speech at Drogheda, Ireland, 29 Sep.

We donot deridethe fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

-Jordan,June
  'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred†[nor] allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.

-King, Martin LutherJr
  Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28  Aug, during the March on Washington.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails; But gold doth more than either of them both.

-Kyd,Thomas
c.1589  The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

Force is the same throughout and the whole is in every part of it. Force is a spiritual power, an invisible energy which isimparted by violence from without toall bodies out of their natural balance.

-Leonardo daVinci
Quoted in  Jean-Paul Richter (ed)  The Literary  Works of Leonardo da Vinci (1939).

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

-1st Baron
  'Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden', in the Edinburgh Review, Dec.

   In violence, we forget who we are.

-McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)
On the Contrary,'Characters in Fiction'.

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

-Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little
  The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

The best thing about the violence in Northern Ireland is that it's all so ancient and honorable† The Irish are in the same terrific position as the Shiites in Lebanon, the peasants in El Salvador, the blacks in America, the Jews in Palestine, the Palestinians in Israel (and everybody everywhere, if you read your history)öenough barbarism has been visited on the Irish to excuse all barbarities by the Irish barbarians.

-O'Rourke, P(atrick) J(ake)
  Holidays in Hell.

   Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting†there are quite enough realcauses oftroublealready, and weneed not add to them by encouraging young men to kickeach other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'The Sporting Spirit'.

   Antes que me hubiera apasionado por mujer alguna, jugue¤   mi corazo¤ n  al azar y me lo gano¤   la violencia. Before I felt passion for any woman, I gambled my heart and lost it to violence.

-Rivera,Jose¤   Eustasio
  La vora¤  gine, pt.1 (translated asTheVortex,1935).

A society†which is riven by a dozen oppositions along lines running in every direction, mayactually be in less danger of being torn with violence or falling to pieces than one split along just one line. For each new cleavage contributes to narrow the cross clefts, so that one might say that society is sewn together by its internal conflicts.

-Ross, Edward Alsworth
  The Principles of Sociology.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

-Tarantino, Quentin
  In the Observer,'Sayings of theWeek',16 Oct.

Violence is fun, man.

-Tarantino, Quentin
  In TheTimes,17 May.