We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience. — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
“Some may have been as hierarchical, tense and violent as the nastiest chimpanzee group, while others were as laid-back, peaceful and lascivious… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema,… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of… — Eva Gabrielsson Copy Share Image
The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it's not Disney. It's the MMA. It's a violent, brutal… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets.… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering,… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
