More quotations tagged with “violence”
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
—Robert J. Sawyer
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
—Plutarch
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
—Tom Robbins
Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds—sexandviolence—until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
—Dick Cavett