Violent Quotes · Page 15

“Rape is a vicious thing.It’s not gentle or considerate.To the recipient it’s violent & painful.”

— Gladys Lawson

I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

— Brian Azzarello

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

— Peter Maurer

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

— Rajneesh

Competition is not vain, but as we've seen in our communities it can become violent.

— Bobby Ray

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

— Dahlia Lithwick

It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.

— Mike Newell

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

— Lord Chesterfield

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was…

— John Blair

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to…

— Maajid Nawaz

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during…

— Troy Polamalu

We're focused on physically securing the border. We're focus on those who are coming to do us harm from terrorist states and…

— Paul Ryan

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on -…

— Bob Saget

Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch…

— D. A. Carson

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their…

— Joseph Addison

All I see is sissies in magazines smiling... Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent? Whatever happened to catching a good,…

— Eminem

When I was about 16, I did a Neil LaBute play called 'A Gaggle of Saints' from a collection of plays called…

— Max Irons

The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent areseen daily…

— Susan Sontag

You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City.…

— Gerald Celente

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black…

— Malcolm X

Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives…

— Mark Helprin

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have…

— Janet Napolitano

You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either…

— Charlotte Bunch

Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller…

— Geoff Mulgan

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

— Liz Williams

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a…

— Spike Lee

I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.

— Bill Bailey

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

— Patrick O'Brian

“Not being violent enough could cost me my body; being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Aside from those few times I’ve killed a man, I’m not a violent person.”

— Jarod Kintz

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

— Courtney Love

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

— Octave Mirbeau

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

— Petra Kelly

“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

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

— Jeffrey Smart

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Anonymous