Violent Quotes · Page 17

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

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a…

— Spike Lee

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

— Lord Chesterfield

It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.

— Mike Newell

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

— Liz Williams

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

— Peter Maurer

Competition is not vain, but as we've seen in our communities it can become violent.

— Bobby Ray

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

— Rajneesh

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force…

— Mackenzie Astin

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When…

— Jim Evans

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you…

— Bex Taylor-Klaus

There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too…

— Irvine Welsh

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the…

— Mark Rothko

Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians…

— Juan Williams

The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own…

— Garry Kasparov

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do -…

— Damian Marley

It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of…

— Upton Sinclair

My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy.…

— Ashton Kutcher

But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising…

— Jaimal Yogis

Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. "Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the…

— Gordon Korman

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more…

— Russell Simmons

People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk…

— Georges St-Pierre

I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and…

— Sam Hamill

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

— Dahlia Lithwick

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

— David Graeber

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of…

— John Turturro

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

— Anonymous

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

— Noam Chomsky

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

— Muriel Rukeyser

We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.

— Chesa Boudin

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

— Tom Shadyac

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

— Wallace Stevens

“Both parties continued as violent as if they could have pleaded the distinct commands of Heaven to justify their intolerance,”

— Walter Scott

In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.

— Wes Fesler

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

— Leonard Cohen

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

“There was a difference between violent, destructive crimes and bending rules that were prejudiced or predatory to start.”

— Angela Flournoy

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

— Lauren DeStefano