Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

To-day violence is the rhetoric of the period.

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

Sometimes it seems like this is the choice - either kick ass or kiss ass.