Violent Quotes · Page 22

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

— Cab Calloway

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

— Jim Goad

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

— John Conyers

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

— Anonymous

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

— Hugo Chavez

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like…

— David R. Ellis

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your…

— Martha Beck

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to…

— George W. Bush

If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river…

— Sarah Parcak

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible…

— Colin Quinn

Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions…

— David Deida

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never…

— Eva Le Gallienne

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have…

— Annie Besant

All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause…

— Norm MacDonald

You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how…

— Jim Goad

“Women, know your worth! If a man is violent, your worth is clearly in your astounding potential to be his personal, unpaid,…

— Anonymous

Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half…

— Michelle Alexander

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent…

— Roger Williams

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,…

— Francis Bacon

Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the…

— Malcolm X

It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first…

— Molly Antopol

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

— Karen Armstrong

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

— Cleve Jones

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

— Maurice Sendak

Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.

— Bill Bailey

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

— Hillary Clinton

“There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

— Anonymous

“this violent, terrible, treasonous, glorious eruption of peace.”

— Hugh Howey

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

— Paul Gauguin

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin

“It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most violent.”

— Mango Wodzak

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

— Jean Piaget

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

— Larry Wilmore

“The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.”

— Lao Tzu

“Wile E. Coyote scenes were edited in the 1980s for being too violent”

— Adam Anderson