When you talk about building political power, you can't just talk about violence in the narrow sense of the word. You have to have a sense of spectacle and theater.

This is a fight over power, prestige and patronage. Violence has broken out when the legal outcome is unclear, which it is now.

“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”

You never know when domestic violence is going to happen, ... We're lucky to have such supportive legislators.

The most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance of the third rate.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.