(noun) Extreme force. Example: "The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive."
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
"Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others."
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence."
"Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
"Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood."
"If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"Everyone has violence in themselves. I'm violent."