It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.Â… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon… — John Locke Copy Share Image
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“A path of destruction no one saw coming; the sweetest, most violent deaths carried out with the gentlest of smiles on our… — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I remember watching 'Fargo.' I thought that was cruel. 'GoodFellas,' lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But a violent act is an epicenter; it shakes everyone within reach and creates other stories, cracks open the earth and reveals… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
