Violent Quotes · Page 16

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

— William Hazlitt

I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

— Brian Azzarello

The kickoff is one of the single-most violent plays in football, to run at full speed for a head-on collision.

— Morten Andersen

I'm not going to allow inmates and officers to be the victims of violent people.

— Eric Adams

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

— Nancy Grace

“The single most violent person in the history of the world is the president of the United States.”

— Eric Michael Moberg

“Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.”

— John Irving

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

— William Barr

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent…

— Dwight Macdonald

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were…

— Demetri Martin

“A shot rang out from the rifle of an alerted Harvestman, and just as the sound reached Nathaniel’s ears, he felt the…

— Jonathan Marker

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. … But no. Violent death…

— Louise Penny

When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even…

— Jackson Katz

Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not…

— Ellen Hopkins

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit…

— Albert Einstein

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in…

— Penn Jillette

These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and…

— Leland Yee

“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to…

— Tiffany Madison

I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact…

— Baroness Byford Hazel Byford

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security…

— James Madison

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man…

— Sam Peckinpah

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed.…

— Anthony Trollope

Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to…

— Barack Obama

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

— Stephenie Meyer

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

— Gustave Flaubert

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

— Vanessa Veselka

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

— Marilyn Manson

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

— Plutarch

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

— Agnes Gund

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

— Petra Kelly

It doesn't feel good to be a horrible, violent, misogynist person.

— Eric Johnson

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

— Octave Mirbeau

“Aside from those few times I’ve killed a man, I’m not a violent person.”

— Jarod Kintz

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

— Courtney Love

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

— Patrick O'Brian

“Not being violent enough could cost me my body; being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.

— Bill Bailey