Violent Quotes · Page 22

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

— Rick Riordan

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

— Barack Obama

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

— Rob Zombie

When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.

— Anonymous

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

— Francois Fenelon

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.”

— Sue Grafton

Guys are getting so big, so fast, so explosive. The game's so violent.

— Carson Palmer

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can…

— Dalai Lama

If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped…

— Barack Obama

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has…

— B. F. Skinner

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not…

— Spike Lee

Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout…

— Charles Kimball

The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always…

— Sun Tzu

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and…

— Sophia Loren

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't…

— Anna Deavere Smith

“When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School,…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness,"…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as…

— Gerhard Richter

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on…

— Richard Dawkins

It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating…

— Rajneesh

The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians…

— Simon Hoggart

When I am talking to people from Germany, we should know that there are certain things and certain histories that are very…

— Tariq Ramadan

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,…

— Sam Shepard

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

— Anonymous

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

— Pierre Klossowski

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

— Raymond Kelly

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.

— Eve Ensler

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

— Kurtis Blow

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

— Nick Nolte

I'm not cranky. I just have a violent reaction to stupid people.

— Anonymous

“it is the violent peotry of the times written in the blood of the youth”

— Luis J Rodriguez

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

— Anonymous

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

— Vladimir Lenin

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

— John Ridley

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

— Greg Bryk

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov