Violent Quotes · Page 16

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

— Steven Pinker

“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

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

I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not…

— Darren Aronofsky

The original 'RoboCop' was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually…

— Joel Kinnaman

Some of these guys are so violent that it is hard for witnesses to come forward, and they get involved in repeat…

— Ray Nagin

I have a soft side that I like people to see. I'm not mean. That's just football. That's just the way you've…

— Brandon Jacobs

The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists…

— Barack Obama

Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most…

— Daniel Horan

I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle…

— Ginni Rometty

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective…

— Barbara Deming

...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people…

— Noam Chomsky

There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called…

— Noam Chomsky

These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America -…

— Frank Gaffney

Kristin Gwynne has been writing some great stuff about the sexually violent element of "stop-and-frisk." This isn't just "turn out your pockets."…

— Melissa Gira Grant

People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so…

— Joshua Clover

The poor get worked, the rich get richer, The world gets worse, do you get the picture? The poor gets dead, the…

— J-Live

I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist…

— Rachel Joyce

The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out…

— Yang Lan

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

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

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

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Mike Newell

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

— Liz Williams

The kickoff is one of the single-most violent plays in football, to run at full speed for a head-on collision.

— Morten Andersen

I'm not going to allow inmates and officers to be the victims of violent people.

— Eric Adams

“The single most violent person in the history of the world is the president of the United States.”

— Eric Michael Moberg

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

— Nancy Grace

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

— William Hazlitt

“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

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

— Stephenie Meyer