Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Anyone who hasnt experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Random violence is incredibly infectious.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.