Gentleness does more than violence. [ La Fontaine ]
Violence does ever justice unjustly. [ Carlyle ]
Gentleness succeeds better than violence. [ La Fontaine ]
To resist violence is implanted in the nature of man. [ Tacitus ]
Excess and violence are the greatest outrages against liberty. [ Villemain ]
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. [ Tacitus ]
We find greater violence and more perseverance among the wretched. [ Tac ]
Patience and length of time accomplish more than violence and rage. [ La Fontaine ]
You may turn nature out of doors with violence, but she will return. [ Horace ]
Violence in the voice is often only the death-rattle of reason in the throat. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. [ Jeffrey ]
The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity. [ St. Evremond ]
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. [ Emerson ]
What otherwise is good and just, if it be aimed at by fraud or violence, becomes evil and unjust. [ Law Maxim ]
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after. [ Landor ]
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. [ Hume ]
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow. [ Alan Turing ]
It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]
Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers, - they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners and things that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. [ Mary Wortley Montagu ]