The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence

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

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence

Like a hunter standing over his kill, men who adore violence seem to find life more beautiful dead