Violent Quotes · Page 12

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

— LL Cool J

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

— John F. Kennedy

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

— Masaba Gupta

Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.

— Gjon Mili

The Klan was one of the most violent terrorist groups that has ever existed in the United States.

— Ron Stallworth

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

My music is violent, but not all of it. I have songs about God, my kids, and telling other people's kids to…

— Boosie

“In certain natures, the conflict between social convention and repressed spontaneity is so violent that it manifests itself in crime, insanity, and…

— Alan W. Watts

Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or…

— Derek Jacobi

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.

— Conan O'Brien

Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to…

— Trent Jamieson

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments…

— Anonymous

What is violent about 'Supari' is the thought that the guy who is sitting next to you in college could be already…

— Uday Chopra

These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and…

— Leland Yee

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security…

— James Madison

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man…

— Sam Peckinpah

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed.…

— Anthony Trollope

“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to…

— Tiffany Madison

I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact…

— Baroness Byford Hazel Byford

Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. "Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the…

— Gordon Korman

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

— W. Somerset Maugham

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

— Holliday Grainger

I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead…

— Lev L. Spiro

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

— John Steinbeck

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

— Kevin Hart

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

— Bernhard Goetz

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust...

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Both Russia and the United States have had their homelands attacked by violent extremists.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

— Jim Goad

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

— Anonymous

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

— John Conyers

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

— Hugo Chavez

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

— Maurice Sendak