Violent Quotes · Page 14

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Maybe I should wipe the smile off his face. Great, I was turning into a violent bitch.”

— Lola Stark

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

— Paul Fussell

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

— Gerard Way

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it…

— Dean Koontz

My dad was violent. Things were getting really bad and if I'd stayed, I might not be here now.

— Naveen Andrews

If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

— Rick James

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

— Woody Allen

America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel…

— Patricia Cornwell

What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look…

— David LaChapelle

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict -…

— Richard K. Morgan

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed…

— Kelly Brook

Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open…

— Jeff Sessions

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance.…

— Raymond Kelly

I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my…

— Gary Sherman

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no…

— Monica Baldwin

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon…

— John Locke

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very…

— Haruki Murakami

Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as…

— James Hillman

“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a…

— Clementine von Radics

As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives…

— Henry Giroux

Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy…

— Deb Caletti

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your…

— Tupac Shakur

During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by…

— Thomas Naylor

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.

— Denis Villeneuve

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

— Anonymous

“We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.”

— Amit Kalantri

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

— Patty Hearst

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

— Dan Winters

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

— Leonard Cohen

Someone who decides to turn in a violent criminal isn't a snitch; they're a hero.

— Eric Adams

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

— Park Chan-wook

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

— Maurice Sendak

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

— Polly Horvath

“Boys and young men are violent in their affections, but they are seldom very constant;”

— Samuel Butler

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

— Anonymous

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

— Leo Tolstoy

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

— Colman McCarthy