Violent Quotes · Page 12

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

— Cab Calloway

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

“These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss consume.”

— Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene VI

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

— Petra Kelly

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

— Hugo Chavez

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

— Jim Goad

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which…

— Jonathan Swift

The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the…

— James Madison

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic…

— Antoni Tapies

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not…

— Denis McDonough

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But…

— David Brin

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective…

— Barbara Deming

“People tell me I live in the past. We all live in the past, I tell them, we just don't know it…

— Will Viharo

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what…

— Gina Philips

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The poor get worked, the rich get richer, The world gets worse, do you get the picture? The poor gets dead, the…

— J-Live

People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so…

— Joshua Clover

I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist…

— Rachel Joyce

The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out…

— Yang Lan

Kristin Gwynne has been writing some great stuff about the sexually violent element of "stop-and-frisk." This isn't just "turn out your pockets."…

— Melissa Gira Grant

Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and…

— Desmond Tutu

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized…

— George Meredith

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

— Anonymous

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

— John Conyers

Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.

— Bill Bailey

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

— Maurice Sendak

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

— Karen Armstrong

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

— Larry Wilmore

“It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most violent.”

— Mango Wodzak

“The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.”

— Lao Tzu

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

— Paul Gauguin

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

— Anonymous

“this violent, terrible, treasonous, glorious eruption of peace.”

— Hugh Howey

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

— Hillary Clinton

“There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

— Tammy Baldwin