Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent. — Bruce Kent Copy Share Image
A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.” — Elizabeth Cruickshank Copy Share Image
Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Peaceful people infinitely deserve our love and our respect; violent people urgently deserve our strong determination to show and teach them the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent.… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience.… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality,… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death:… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt,… — William James Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal. — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude. — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I still believe in hearing all sides, except the crazy violent side. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on… — Brian Jones Copy Share Image
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way. — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
