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• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
  • Punch by Alan Brien

• Force is not a remedy.
  • In a speech by John Bright

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
  • The Face of Violence by Jacob Bronowski

• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
  • In the Conciliation with America speech given by Edmund Burke

• La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.
  • Translation: The reason of the strongest is always the best
  • Le loup et l'agneau by Jean de la Fontaine

• Vis consili expers mole ruit sua.
  • Translation: Brute force without judgement collapses under its own weight
  • Odes by Horace

• A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit upon it.
  • Philosophy of Plotinus by William Ralph Inge

• A riot is at the bottom the language of the unheard.
  • Chaos or Community by Martin Luther King

• Let there be no violence in religion.
  • Chapter 2 of the Koran

• There is little to choose morally between beating up a man physically and beating him up meantally.
  • On Moral Courage by Compton MacKenzie, (1962)

• ...who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton

• There is a homely old adage which runs, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.'
  • In a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt

• Where force is necessary, one should make use of it boldly, resolutely, and right to the end. But it is as well to know the limitations of force; to know where to combine force with manoeuvre, assualt with conciliation.
  • What Next? by Leon Trotsky

• Vencer no es convencer.
  • Translation: To conquer is not to convince
  • In a speech given by Miguel de Unamuno

• Whenever you employ a force of any sort, to carry a point of real importance, reject all nice calculations of economy. Better to be a thousand per cent over the mark, than the smallest fraction of a unit under it.
  • The Room in the Dragon Volant, from the book In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Faun