I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it… — Sharon Tate Copy Share Image
I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Say you're a sex worker and your partner knows you're a sex worker, but you're not out to your family. That could… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
So "Grand Theft Auto," for those who don't know, is the video game series where players pretend to drive cars around these… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
“Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I've actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you'll be able to locate them. One was… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
It's a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it's very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it… — Michael Chandler Copy Share Image
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of… — Amina Mama Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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