Violent Quotes · Page 13

Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.

— Bill Bailey

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

— Karen Armstrong

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

— Cleve Jones

“I meet pound for pound him with each violent thrust, causing as much damage as he is me.”

— Anonymous

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

— Virginia Woolf

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

— Hannah Arendt

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Enslavement is when one person completely controls another person, uses violence or violent threats to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and…

— Julia Ormond

I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So,…

— Roger Corman

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from…

— Vavasor Powell

Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations…

— Robert Crais

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit…

— Albert Einstein

Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not…

— Ellen Hopkins

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in…

— Penn Jillette

People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk…

— Georges St-Pierre

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more…

— Russell Simmons

The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with…

— Ursula Vernon

Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails…

— Paul Ormerod

I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and…

— Sam Hamill

Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to…

— Barack Obama

It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of…

— Upton Sinclair

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

— Cab Calloway

“These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss consume.”

— Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene VI

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

— Petra Kelly

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

“Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

— Eliza Griswold

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

— Niecy Nash

“It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.”

— Elizabeth Cruickshank

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

— Derek Landy

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

— Kelly Corrigan

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on…

— Brian Jones

I still believe in hearing all sides, except the crazy violent side.

— Alisyn Camerota

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

— Salman Rushdie

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

— Clint Eastwood