Violent Quotes · Page 13

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

— Warren Zevon

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun.'

— Nick Robinson

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Domestic violent extremism is the most acute threat, terrorism-related threat that we are seeing to our homeland.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild…

— Flea

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

— William Sloane Coffin

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

— Honore de Balzac

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love…

— James A. Baldwin

Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes…

— Tim Winton

Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into…

— Ilona Andrews

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their…

— Bill Schuette

In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,…

— Jonathan Raban

Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been…

— Patricia Briggs

We shouldn't forget about the over 100,000, in fact some estimates place it in excess of one million, the over 100,000 innocent…

— Vincent Bugliosi

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can…

— Tony Robbins

Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football…

— Steve Almond

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial…

— Edward Said

I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more…

— Quincy Jones

It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have…

— Martin Luther

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at…

— Antonio Gramsci

I think people would be up in arms. I think we would most likely have a similar situation to what happened in…

— Elijah Wood

When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture…

— Carlo Carra

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

— Siobhan Fahey

It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.

— Daniel Jacobs

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

— Ben Lerner

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.

— Steve Goodier

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost…

— George Sand

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

— Peter Diamandis

“Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.”

— Suzanne Collins

“That Zsadist was late was no big surprise. Z was one giant, violent fuck-you to the world.”

— J.R. Ward

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

— Marge Piercy

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

— John Dryden

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

— Billie Jean King

“I believe that in the deepest places in their hearts, people are violent and take pleasure in hurting each other.”

— Ruth Ozeki

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

— Robert Englund

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

— Gene Hackman