Violent Quotes · Page 15

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to…

— Peter Singer

Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat…

— Roger Waters

It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - —violent films. To me, seeing violence in a…

— Jim Capaldi

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

I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was…

— Morgan Freeman

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

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

— Peter Berg

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

— Anonymous

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

— Aristotle

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

I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.

— Hillary Clinton

“The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.”

— Harry Blamires

I want to be clear that violent crime isn't just a St. Louis or Kansas City problem.

— Mike Parson

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We are the road that winds down a sound mind, then slips into the sea.”

— Anthony Liccione

A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.

— Adele Exarchopoulos

Exercise will aid in the work of digestion. Take a walk after a meal; but no violent exercise after a full meal.

— Ellen G. White