Violent Quotes · Page 19

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

— Gene Roddenberry

These violents delights have violent ends And in there triumph die like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss consume.

— William Shakespeare

The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

— Alveda King

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

— Donald A. Wollheim

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

— Gina Carano

True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

“It is the violent act that makes history and changes everything that came before.”

— Don DeLillo

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not…

— Darren Aronofsky

The original 'RoboCop' was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually…

— Joel Kinnaman

If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards…

— Frederick Lenz

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That…

— Brie Larson

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for…

— Randall Terry

“A houseful of killers, some of the most violent men Frank had ever encountered, and it took a woman’s touch to destroy…

— Nicole Castle

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all,…

— Alexander Walker

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for…

— Anonymous

We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be…

— Adam Phillips

The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and…

— Antonin Artaud

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an…

— Michael Moriarty

In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in…

— Isabel Fonseca

In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the…

— Wayne Muller

“A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.”

— T.F. Hodge

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

— Anne Stevenson

“Alec didn't normally consider himself a violent man, but sometimes, arms simply needed to be removed.”

— Gail Carriger

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

— Louis L'Amour

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

— Bertolt Brecht

“You Americans are so violent. I’m Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.”

— Gayle Forman

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

— Harold Bloom

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

— Eli Roth

Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.

— Norm MacDonald

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

— Anonymous

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

— Dave Barry

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.

— Reinhold Messner

“The offender was determined to be extremely violent, in official terms. Completely fucking crazy, in other words.”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.

— Shawn Crahan

“Children will always learn from us. If we are angry, abusive and violent...how can we ever expect them to be peaceful?”

— Timothy Pina