Violent Quotes · Page 17

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

— Gustave Flaubert

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

— Vanessa Veselka

“Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.”

— John Irving

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

— William Barr

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

— Marilyn Manson

It doesn't feel good to be a horrible, violent, misogynist person.

— Eric Johnson

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic…

— Antoni Tapies

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But…

— David Brin

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not…

— Denis McDonough

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives…

— James Madison

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if…

— Wong Kar-wai

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems…

— Sam Farr

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what…

— Gina Philips

“People tell me I live in the past. We all live in the past, I tell them, we just don't know it…

— Will Viharo

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim…

— Ashley Montagu

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic…

— Stefan Zweig

There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have…

— Jim Goad

“Next time you pull a knife on me," Inga growled, "this is vhat I do to you." She hammered a scruffy bush…

— Anthony C. Winkler

People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but…

— Lupe Fiasco

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some…

— Gloria Steinem

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized…

— George Meredith

Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and…

— Desmond Tutu

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

— Plutarch

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

— Agnes Gund

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

— Petra Kelly

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

— Lauren DeStefano

To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

— Michael Z. Williamson

“Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel...”

— Lisa Gardner

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

— Robert Jordan

Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.

— Ehud Olmert

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

— Kofi Annan

The way I do things is very violent, very destructive and in-your-face.

— Jeremy Stephens

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

— Timothy Noah

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

— Troy King

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

— Ryuhei Kitamura

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

— Thomas Carlyle

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

— Anonymous

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

— Muriel Rukeyser