violence Quotes

“Violence . . . is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

topic:violence failure

“I have always felt, . . . that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:hate violence

“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem—just to avoid violence.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

topic:equality violence

“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

topic:evil violence

“Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:love violence

“Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism—how I hate them!”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

topic:war violence

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