He was like a knife, all harsh angles and violent promises.

I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one…

— Joaquin Phoenix

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

— Anonymous

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

— Kathy Szeliga

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent…

— Henry Rollins

I'm not any more sexist, racist or violent than the world around me.

— Bushwick Bill

A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures…

— Tadeusz Borowski

After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the…

— Emory Cohen

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around…

— Jay-Z

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Peter Berg

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

— Aristotle

The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

— Noam Chomsky

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is…

— Roland Merullo

“Never scorn a woman. They get violent.”

— Pepper Phillips