<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Violence - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60696]]></link><description><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is as American as cherry pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is as American as cherry pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Salvor Hardin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Salvor Hardin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60693]]></link><description><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence does even justice unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence does even justice unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. -E. F. Schumacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domestic and social violence usually starts off with a few angry words and a few hurt feelings that don't get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Domestic and social violence usually starts off with a few angry words and a few hurt feelings that don't get resolved, then escalates into feelings of betrayal, rage and revenge. Inner feelings of rage soon spill over into all aspects of society. Social stress multiplies daily with every new report of political upheaval, child abuse, drug abuse, workplace violence, children bringing guns to school, homelessness, ethnic wars or some other crisis. The root cause of a lot of these social stresses is the inner violence created by dysfunctional communication between the heart and the mind. As social stress increases, we're faced with a choice: Retreat into fear and isolation, become angry and bitter, try to ignore it all, or take responsibility for our own stress reactions. Bobby Jagdev For peace, we must prepare for war. Slade Whitfield -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is one of the most fun things to watch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is one of the most fun things to watch]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60674]]></link><description><![CDATA[They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60676]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60677]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In violence, we forget who we are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60663]]></link><description><![CDATA[In violence, we forget who we are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing good ever comes of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing good ever comes of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60661]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60656]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60657]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60652]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60653]]></link><description><![CDATA[People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45253</guid></item></channel></rss>