Violent Quotes · Page 17

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

— Troy Vincent

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

— Greg Bryk

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

— Marianne Williamson

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

— Barack Obama

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not any more sexist, racist or violent than the world around me.

— Bushwick Bill

I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world.

— Lil B

I'm not cranky. I just have a violent reaction to stupid people.

— Anonymous

Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to…

— Judy LaMarsh

Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original…

— Jane Levy

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it's very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it…

— Michael Chandler

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated…

— Rebecca West

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted…

— John Ray

At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been…

— Michael Gove

One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students.…

— Park Dietz

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community…

— Naomi Wolf

There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there…

— Walter Russell

From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended…

— Charles Frazier

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with…

— Chin-Ning Chu

On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but…

— John Hickenlooper

As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

— Nick Nolte

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

— Vladimir Lenin

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

— John Ridley

“it is the violent peotry of the times written in the blood of the youth”

— Luis J Rodriguez

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

— Anonymous

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

— Maajid Nawaz

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

— Margaret Walker

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

— Gerard Way

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

— Sam McDowell

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

— Bruce Willis

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

— Ferdinand Foch

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Children will always learn from us. If we are angry, abusive and violent...how can we ever expect them to be peaceful?”

— Timothy Pina

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

— Eric S. Raymond

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

— Margaret Mitchell