Violent Quotes · Page 11

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The Klan was one of the most violent terrorist groups that has ever existed in the United States.

— Ron Stallworth

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

— John Steinbeck

I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead…

— Lev L. Spiro

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

— Holliday Grainger

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.”

— Rehan Waris

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies…

— Troy King

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed…

— Lisa Kudrow

“It is just as often the case, however, that men are violent solely from expedience, because they believe in no higher law…

— David Bentley Hart

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

— T. S. Eliot

What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that…

— Quentin Tarantino

The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in…

— Sergey Lavrov

Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every…

— Lysa TerKeurst

Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our…

— Iyanla Vanzant

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who…

— Desmond Tutu

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak…

— Primo Levi

I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally…

— Eddie Vedder

Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would…

— Tony Abbott

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot…

— Harold H. Greene

Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent…

— Abraham Cowley

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise…

— Thomas Jefferson

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me

— Eminem

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

— Ali Sina

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

— Robert Downey, Jr

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

— Lawrence Solomon

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

— Michael Wilbon

Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

— Patty Judge

“To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone.”

— Peter Carey

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

— Joanna Baillie

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

— William Kunstler

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

— Satoshi Tajiri

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

— Delia Sherman

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

— Mandy Patinkin

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

— Bill Schuette

I just don't ever want it to be nice. I'd prefer someone had a violent reaction to my collection than ever call…

— Jonathan Anderson

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was…

— Ayn Rand