Violent Quotes · Page 16

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only…

— Dalai Lama

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all…

— Mark Twain

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all,…

— Eric San

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a…

— Richard Engel

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

— Khaled Hosseini

Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for…

— Derrick Jensen

The alt-right is working hard to cloak its desire to create chaos in the streets as free speech. They say they want…

— W. Kamau Bell

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius…

— Benjamin Franklin

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve…

— Dale Carnegie

The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social…

— Emma Goldman

Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and…

— Sonya Lamonakis

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue,…

— Anonymous

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are…

— Krista Tippett

When I was 16 or 17 I got a job at a McDonald's in Nottinghamshire. I was given the prestigious late Friday…

— Richard Bacon

The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without…

— Ralph Bunche

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 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

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

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

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

— Betty Williams

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

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

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