Violence Quotes There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.     Muhammad Ali Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.     Isaac Asimov The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.     Joan Baez It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.     Thomas Elliot It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.     Mahatma Gandhi Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.     Mahatma Gandhi Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.     Francis Jeffrey 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 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 Previous Subject - Victory | Next Subject - War