32 Metaphors for violences

Because violence is the only way of coming to the truth between you and me! AUNTIE

Meanwhile, the very violence of the revolts against even the suspicion of oppression are but symptoms of the vigorous vitality which, in former centuries, seemed to have no existence at all.

But blundering and undisciplined violence and broken promises were not the arguments to employ against it.

Violence was clearly his mode of life: the motor had to go sixty miles an hour; he might be one of those who bathed in the Serpentine in mid-winter; he would clearly dance all night, and ride all day, and go on till he dropped in the pursuit of what he cared for.

Mere violence is not a strength but a weakness in passion, and sometimes there is more passion in patience than in anything else in the world.

Violence for us is a gospel or despair.

But violence is a certainty without, violence is only a possibility with non-co-operation.

Violence is the job.

Violence was the order of the day, and apprehension and danger in regard to personal liberty was entirely transferred from the debtors to the creditors, who were individually maltreated by the crowd before the very eyes of the consul.

If the tradition of England is such that violence must be a preliminary to all final persuasion, perhaps censure of the militants can find some mitigation in that fact.

But civic Violence, in all circumstances Now like to hap, is anti-social crime, Foul in its birth and fatal in its issue.

But violence is a certainty without, violence is only a possibility with non-co-operation.

Non-violence is the first article of my faith.

The Bishop of Durham saw no solution but in violence; but violence to the metropolitan was too bold a measure to be seriously entertained.

Violence is not the attribute of justicebut the youth hath offended the laws, and he suffereth for his crimes?"

Violence is always a means of preventing the sincere and fruitful diffusion of an idea.

All the violences against Germany were, until the day before yesterday, an effect of hatred; to-day they derive from dread.

Because violence is the only way of coming to the truth between you and me! AUNTIE

Violence to his person was the last thing to do, for this would have involved the King in war with the adherents of the Pope, and would have entailed an excommunication.

The violence with which she had been treated, the audacity of such an outrage in daylight and on the highway, the closed and darkened carriage, the speed at which they travelled, all were grounds for alarm as serious as a woman could feel; and Julia, though she was a brave woman, felt a sudden horror come over her.

The fact is that non-co-operation by reason of its non-violence has become a religious and purifying movement.

Violence was an exhibition of anger and any such exhibition was dissipation of valuable energy.

For mere force, violence in the abstract, is the enemy of anything we love.

Added to this, their uncurbed violence in discussion, their constant interruptions during the speeches of opponents, their reckless inaccuracy in matters of fact, were all bars standing in the way of the thoughtful.

Montanus did not suffer for it, since Nero thought the violence had been all an accident and was for showing no anger at the occurrence, had not the other sent him a letter begging his pardon.

32 Metaphors for  violences