Violent Quotes · Page 14

My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.

— John Carter Cash

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

— Robert Crumb

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

— Mark Twain

“When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

— Chelsea Cain

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

— Anonymous

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

— Daniel Defoe

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

— Bruno Dumont

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force…

— Mackenzie Astin

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were…

— Demetri Martin

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent…

— Dwight Macdonald

“A shot rang out from the rifle of an alerted Harvestman, and just as the sound reached Nathaniel’s ears, he felt the…

— Jonathan Marker

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. … But no. Violent death…

— Louise Penny

When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even…

— Jackson Katz

There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too…

— Irvine Welsh

The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own…

— Garry Kasparov

My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy.…

— Ashton Kutcher

But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising…

— Jaimal Yogis

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those…

— James Madison

As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit…

— Stefan Zweig

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for…

— Anonymous

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is…

— Gloria Steinem

I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal…

— Takashi Miike

“From his bedroom window on the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Nathaniel Dixon watched in awe at the four-ship formation of V-22…

— Jonathan Marker

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

— Paul Gauguin

“this violent, terrible, treasonous, glorious eruption of peace.”

— Hugh Howey

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

— Anonymous

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

— Larry Wilmore

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

— Jean Piaget

“It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most violent.”

— Mango Wodzak

“The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.”

— Lao Tzu

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

— Hillary Clinton

“There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

— Mason Cooley

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

— Julie Andrews

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

— Glen Duncan

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

— Tammy Baldwin

“Wile E. Coyote scenes were edited in the 1980s for being too violent”

— Adam Anderson

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

— Henri Frederic Amiel