We British are an aggressive nation.We seem to have become more violent this last decade: look how we drive fast and furious, with fists clenched; listen, at the stadiums, how the crowds shout,'Kick his fuckin' head in,'or to the sirens of police cars and ambulances in the shoddy streets of Brixton or Liverpool.

-Abse, Dannie
  Journals from the Ant-Heap,'Appendix1:  Authors Take Sides'.

If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness When everything is as it was in my childhood Violent, vivid and of infinite possibility.

-Eberhart, Richard Ghormley
  'If I Could Only Live at the Pitch That Is Near Madness'.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind.

-Jefferson,Thomas
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Speech to Latin  American diplomats,12 Mar.

Nay, good sir, be not so violent; with speed I cannot render satisfaction Unto the dear companion of my soul, Virginity, whom I thus long have lived with, And part with it so rude and suddenly. Can such friends divide, never to meet again, Without a solemn farewell?

-Middleton,Thomas
  The Changeling (with William Rowley), act1, sc.1.