Violent quotes
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Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
-- Al Pacino -
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
-- Albert Pike -
Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.
-- Alex Linder -
Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.
-- Andre Glucksmann -
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
-- Anne Stevenson -
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
-- Barbara Deming -
I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.
-- Bernhard Goetz -
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Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
-- Betty Williams -
It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.
-- Bill Schuette -
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
-- Bob Brown -
Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within.
-- Bob Toski -
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To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
-- Brian Jones -
A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.
-- Casey Kasem -
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.
-- Cesar Chavez -
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
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My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.
-- Colin Quinn -
It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.
-- Dan Winters -
Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
-- Dean Koontz -
I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.
-- Derek Landy -
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At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent
-- Edward James Olmos -
I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.
-- Ehud Olmert -
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
-- Eileen Wilks -
Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...
-- Elizabeth Blackwell -
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.
-- Francine du Plessix Gray -
Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
For someone so violent, he has a gentle face, doesn't he?
-- Fuyumi Soryo -
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I don't see myself as a violent guy.
-- Gene Hackman -
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
-- Gene Roddenberry -
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
-- Gene Sharp -
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
-- George Etherege -
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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
-- George Sand -
The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
-- Gijs de Vries -
I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.
-- Gina Carano -
How slow life is, how violent hope is.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire -
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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
-- Hannah Arendt -
Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.
-- Herbert Read -
Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.
-- Huey Newton -
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
-- Hugo Chavez -
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There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.
-- Irvine Welsh -
The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent
-- Jack Straw -
I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.
-- James Lee -
Ancient Rome was a violent place.
-- James Purefoy -
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In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.
-- James W. Loewen -
Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.
-- Jasmine Guy -
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
-- Jean Piaget -
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.
-- Jimmy Hoffa -
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When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.
-- John Conyers -
There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.
-- Karen Armstrong -
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
-- Karl Abraham -
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.
-- Katherine Applegate -
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I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.
-- Ken Burns -
I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.
-- Kevin Hart -
God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.
-- Kirstie Alley -
The dimensions of my feelings are too violent
-- Klaus Kinski -
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Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.
-- Knut Hamsun -
Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.
-- Lester Bangs -
Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.
-- Louise Mensch -
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I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
-- Lydia Lunch -
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
-- Marcel Duchamp -
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
-- Margery Allingham -
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Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
-- Marie de France -
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
-- Marilyn Manson -
There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.
-- Matt Chandler -
I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.
-- Maya Banks -
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Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.
-- Michael Wilbon -
ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.
-- Michele Flournoy -
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.
-- Mike DeWine -
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
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I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
-- Nancy Grace -
The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.
-- Noel Fisher -
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
-- Octave Mirbeau -
I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.
-- Paloma Faith -
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
-- Park Chan-wook -
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
-- Patrick Stewart -
The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Violent delights tend to have violent ends.
-- Richard Ramirez -
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If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.
-- Rick James -
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
-- Russell Hoban -
He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
-- S. E. Hinton -
Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
-- Sarah Vowell -
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I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.
-- Shannen Doherty -
It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!
-- Shawn Michaels -
There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
-- Siobhan Fahey -
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
-- Stafford Cripps -
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
-- Stanley Crouch -
Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
-- Steven Pinker -
Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
-- Sylvester Stallone -
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The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.
-- Theodore Zeldin -
Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?
-- Thomas Huxley -
If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.
-- Tony Robbins -
In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
-- Vincent Price -
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These violent delights have violent ends.
-- William Shakespeare -
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust...
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.
-- Wyndham Lewis -
The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.
-- Christian Scott -
