Violent Quotes · Page 10

“The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

— Peter Bruce

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

— Bob Brown

“it is the violent of the times ,written in the blood of the youth.”

— Linda Mendoza

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

— Philip Yancey

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

— John Lennon

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

— Tim Bishop

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am…

— Edith Sitwell

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you…

— Gore Vidal

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“So here we are. The two of us. Me and this geezer I gotta kill. Sittin here in a car showroom office,…

— Ian Ayris

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's…

— Naomi Wolf

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the…

— George Etherege

“I am Cnaiur urs Skiötha, breaker-of-horses-and-men!", "I am Cnaiür urs Skiötha, most violent of all men! I bear your fathers and brothers…

— R. Scott Bakker

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they…

— Nat Hentoff

“I want to be Empress.” “Oh, Theodora, don’t be insane.” Antonina took her friend’s hands. “Do you really think a circus clown…

— Carol Strickland

When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and…

— Thomas Merton

“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty…

— Jean Lorrain

the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation,…

— Dervla Murphy

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or…

— Harry Browne

But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about…

— Wynton Marsalis

For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big…

— Alan Sillitoe

We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes

— Bonnie Greer

There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.

— Matt Chandler

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

— Plato

“This is how he always imagined- a dangerous place full of mystery and violent kids.”

— Neal Shusterman

Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

— Mick Jagger

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

— Rumi

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

— Plato

The Klan was one of the most violent terrorist groups that has ever existed in the United States.

— Ron Stallworth

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

— Masaba Gupta

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

— John F. Kennedy

Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.

— Gjon Mili

I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead…

— Lev L. Spiro

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

— W. Somerset Maugham

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

— John Steinbeck