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The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. 
Adolf Hitler 

 

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. 

~John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

 

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit.  You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. 

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does. 

~Madge Micheels-Cyrus

 

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.  ~Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
 Mahatma Gandhi

 

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. 

 ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

 

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

 

Keep violence in the mind 
Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
Brian Aldiss

 

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. 
Julius K Nyerere

 

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. 
Benito Mussolini

 

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. 
Adolf Hitler