Violent Quotes · Page 18

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

— David Graeber

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of…

— John Turturro

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

— Anonymous

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

— Noam Chomsky

We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.

— Chesa Boudin

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

— Tom Shadyac

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

— Wallace Stevens

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity…

— Sue Kaufman

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just…

— Frederick Lenz

All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for…

— Suzanne Collins

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for…

— Richard King

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred…

— Samuel P. Huntington

What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does…

— Karyn Kusama

Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat…

— Roger Waters

I'm still the same person I've always been. I can't say exactly what I'll do; I'm an excessive person. Talk about violence-----I…

— Wendy O. Williams

I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after…

— Jeff Lindsay

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very…

— Dan Gilroy

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football,…

— Peter Berg

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they…

— Aristotle

We live in a world where it has become politically correct to avoid absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the…

— Anonymous

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was…

— Morgan Freeman

“Both parties continued as violent as if they could have pleaded the distinct commands of Heaven to justify their intolerance,”

— Walter Scott

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

“There was a difference between violent, destructive crimes and bending rules that were prejudiced or predatory to start.”

— Angela Flournoy

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

— Leonard Cohen

In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.

— Wes Fesler

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

— Gina Carano

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

— Donald A. Wollheim

True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

— Alveda King

“A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.”

— T.F. Hodge

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It is the violent act that makes history and changes everything that came before.”

— Don DeLillo

“You Americans are so violent. I’m Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.”

— Gayle Forman

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

— Anne Stevenson

“Alec didn't normally consider himself a violent man, but sometimes, arms simply needed to be removed.”

— Gail Carriger

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

— Bertolt Brecht