Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

-Walker, Alice Malsenior
  'One Child of One's Own', in Ms., Aug.

Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.

-White, Edmund
  States of Desire:Travels in Gay America, ch.5.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

-Wilbur, Richard
  Walking to Sleep,'On the MarginalWay'.