Violent Quotes · Page 20

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

— Margaret Mitchell

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

— Eric S. Raymond

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

— Ferdinand Foch

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

— Maajid Nawaz

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

— Margaret Walker

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

— Sam McDowell

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them…

— Annie Proulx

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps…

— Audrey Hepburn

I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not a violent person. I mean, I have a gun. I shoot guns, but I wouldn't…

— David Rasche

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do…

— Al Pacino

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the…

— Dennis C. Blair

“War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food,…

— Alasdair Gray

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to…

— Sun Tzu

Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of…

— Elizabeth Neel

It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me…

— Ndamukong Suh

The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous…

— Barack Obama

Accommodation is a central aspect of the cross-centered interpretation of violent portraits of God that I'm advocating. Like everything else in Cross…

— Gregory A. Boyd

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his…

— Steve Chalke

The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death…

— Rand Paul

We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers…

— Robert Fisk

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

— Gerard Way

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

— Bruce Willis

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent…

— Ruth Bernhard

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

— Neil Young

There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.

— Cesar Chavez

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

— Henry Fielding

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

— Thomas Jane

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

— Henry Rollins

I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

— Paget Brewster

“it is the violent poetry of the times, writen in the blood of the youth.”

— Linda Mendoza

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of…

— Bertolt Brecht

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

— Karl Abraham

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

— Geoffrey Canada

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

— Anonymous

Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

— Gichin Funakoshi