Violent Quotes · Page 13

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

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

— Glen Duncan

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

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems…

— Sam Farr

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if…

— Wong Kar-wai

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

I'm still the same person I've always been. I can't say exactly what I'll do; I'm an excessive person. Talk about violence-----I…

— Wendy O. Williams

“Next time you pull a knife on me," Inga growled, "this is vhat I do to you." She hammered a scruffy bush…

— Anthony C. Winkler

There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have…

— Jim Goad

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

— Julie Andrews

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

— Mason Cooley

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

— Bruce Kent

“Wile E. Coyote scenes were edited in the 1980s for being too violent”

— Adam Anderson

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

— Niecy Nash

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

— Eliza Griswold

“Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

— Kelly Corrigan

“It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.”

— Elizabeth Cruickshank

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

— Derek Landy

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

— Clint Eastwood

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

— Salman Rushdie

My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.

— John Carter Cash

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on…

— Brian Jones

I still believe in hearing all sides, except the crazy violent side.

— Alisyn Camerota