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Famous Quotes & Quotations About Violence:

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.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
~ Dave Barry.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
~ John Frederick Boyes.

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.
~ Gerard Vanderhaar.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
~ Alan Paton.

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
~ John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667.

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.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
~ Albert Einstein.

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