Violent Quotes · Page 14

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

— Chelsea Cain

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

— Bruno Dumont

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

— Daniel Defoe

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

— Anonymous

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

— Robert Crumb

“When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

— Mark Twain

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives…

— James Madison

All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for…

— Suzanne Collins

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred…

— Samuel P. Huntington

What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does…

— Karyn Kusama

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for…

— Richard King

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity…

— Sue Kaufman

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just…

— Frederick Lenz

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic…

— Stefan Zweig

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim…

— Ashley Montagu

People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but…

— Lupe Fiasco

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some…

— Gloria Steinem

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although…

— Francis Bacon

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very…

— Dan Gilroy

I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after…

— Jeff Lindsay

If we are to change violent criminal acts across our state, we must work together.

— Mike Parson

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

— Anonymous

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

— William Shakespeare

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

— Steven Pinker

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

— Henry Rollins

“You should be querying why you consider a violent society as being normal.”

— Steven Magee

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My violent music helps most kids avoid that street life because it scares them. My fans aren't blind to the consequences.

— Boosie

My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

— Mark Twain

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

— Charles Dickens

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

— Steven Pinker

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

— Gayle Forman

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

— Patrick Stewart

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.

— Michele Flournoy

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent…

— Toni Morrison

“You look all frail and breakable, but you're really a violent little thing, aren't you?”

— Rebecca Yarros