(noun) Extreme force. Example: "The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive."
"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'."
"No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism."
"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."
"Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood."
"Everyone has violence in themselves. I'm violent."
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."
"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."
"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."
"Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others."
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."