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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
ISAAC ASIMOV, Astounding Science Fiction, May 1942
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, The Arrogance of Power
As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.
MICHAEL BERG, CNN interview, Jun. 8, 2006
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
JOSEPH CONRAD, The Secret Agent
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
LEWIS H. LAPHAM, Harper's Magazine, Mar. 1985
- The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more,
- As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.
LORD BYRON, Marino Faliero
Is war necessary? Can some conflicts only be solved by violence? Human history is indeed often presented as primarily a history of wars and battles, conquests and defeats. While that is only one perspective amongst many possible ones, violence of one sort or another has certainly been, if not centre-stage, at least lurking in the wings throughout the human story. Man (especially Man, but also Woman) clearly has the propensity not only to behave aggressively to other humans but also to do so in an organized way and not infrequently with calculated cruelty.
ROBERT AUBREY HINDE, War: The Bases of Institutionalized Violence
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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