Violent Quotes · Page 23

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

— Troy Vincent

“We weren't violent then. There is a difference between paint and not.”

— Darin Bradley

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

— William Shakespeare

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent…

— Mahatma Gandhi

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

— Barack Obama

I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world.

— Lil B

I'm not any more sexist, racist or violent than the world around me.

— Bushwick Bill

It doesn't need to be that violent and crazy and wild. Having experienced it, you don't belong to yourself anymore. You belong…

— Isabelle Adjani

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent…

— Hans Kung

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more…

— E. F. Schumacher

One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic…

— George Pattison

“When we changed the channel from violent television to tamer fare, kids just ended up learning the advanced skills of clique formation,…

— Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

— Stefan Zweig

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life.…

— J. C. Chandor

Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government,…

— Arthur James Moore

You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm…

— Pankaj Mishra

I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in…

— Sulak Sivaraksa

It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in…

— Andre Vltchek

There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a…

— Robert Englund

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a…

— Park Chan-wook

The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge…

— Vandana Shiva

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“As it usually happened after an engagement, a heavy sadness was coming down over his spirits. To some degree it was the…

— Patrick O'Brian

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

— Marianne Williamson

I've travelled pretty widely and have never taken a violent dislike to anywhere.

— Arlene Phillips

I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to…

— Brian Posehn

Men are vile, violent and without self-control. It cannot be contested.

— Krista The Femitheist

Not all young people are violent thugs/x factor loving zombies. I'm fed up of being generalised.

— Anonymous

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

— Andre Glucksmann

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

— Terry Gilliam

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.

— Rick Riordan

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

— Fernando Pessoa

“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”

— Paul Fussell

When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent.

— Wangechi Mutu

Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant.

— Dov Davidoff

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

— Kathy Szeliga

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

— Marian Wright Edelman

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

— Vivienne Westwood

We consider domestic violent extremism the greatest terrorist-related threat to our homeland.

— Alejandro Mayorkas