Violent Quotes · Page 23

“That Zsadist was late was no big surprise. Z was one giant, violent fuck-you to the world.”

— J.R. Ward

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

— Marge Piercy

It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.

— Daniel Jacobs

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.

— Steve Goodier

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

— Ben Lerner

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

— Maurice Sendak

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

— Park Chan-wook

Take giant leaps. Too many companies are into incremental innovation. The only thing that moves markets is violent turns. Major differences. Don't…

— Michael J. Silverstein

But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour…

— Hugh Mackay

When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime…

— Michele Cassou

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with…

— Mickey Rourke

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the…

— Peter Berg

What Brad Bushman did is in 2010 he ran what's called a meta-analysis, which is an analysis that looks at a whole…

— Jason Schreier

We don't want peace over freedom. We will choose freedom over peace. We will go on with our fight for self-determination and…

— Zainab al-Khawaja

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Kingdom suffers violence and the violent take "IT" by force! I believe the Lord is requiring our worship to become more…

— Chuck Pierce

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the…

— Rudolf Hoss

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read…

— Gabe Polsky

There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States…

— Erin Pizzey

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The…

— Marina Warner

It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and…

— William Faulkner

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

— Colman McCarthy

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

— Leo Tolstoy

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

— Betty Williams

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

— Polly Horvath

“Boys and young men are violent in their affections, but they are seldom very constant;”

— Samuel Butler

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

— Anonymous

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

— Anonymous

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.

— Denis Villeneuve

“We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.”

— Amit Kalantri

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

— Woody Allen

If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

— Rick James

It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

— Dan Winters

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

— Leonard Cohen

Someone who decides to turn in a violent criminal isn't a snitch; they're a hero.

— Eric Adams

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

— Patty Hearst