Violent Quotes · Page 15

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

— Betty Williams

I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

— Raymond Kelly

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

— Pierre Klossowski

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

— Kurtis Blow

Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.

— Eve Ensler

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

— E. F. Schumacher

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun…

— Ted Nugent

So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're…

— Ellar Coltrane

I'm quite confident that when you spew out hateful [anti-islam]rhetoric, you green-light people who are - who have violent and who are…

— Steve King

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are…

— Peter Kropotkin

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human…

— Diane Ackerman

Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the…

— Adolf Hitler

I've actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you'll be able to locate them. One was…

— Stephen Hunter

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation…

— Ludwig von Mises

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate…

— Liu Xia

I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my…

— Alex Lemon

The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight…

— Edward Snowden

People were like, "Someone who made a song like this, there has to be more to them. I'm interested in hearing how…

— Immortal Technique

Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages…

— John Owen

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

— Francois Fenelon

When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.

— Anonymous

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

— Rob Zombie

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

— Barack Obama

Guys are getting so big, so fast, so explosive. The game's so violent.

— Carson Palmer

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

— Anonymous

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.”

— Sue Grafton

“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?”

— Ray Gwyn Smith

I love unusual games, games that dare to be different and that are not based on violent actions.

— David Cage

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

— Jose Mujica

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

— Rick Riordan

I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've…

— M.I.A

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

— Jon Glaser

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

— Wayne LaPierre

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

— Gijs de Vries