It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source:… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear… — Emanuel Steward Copy Share Image
I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
The ritual of exorcism is not practiced by an ordinary priest. An exorcist requires specific training and must be thought to have… — Gabriele Amorth Copy Share Image
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It's radical Islamic terrorism. And yet, when you see the last eight years, something's gone wrong to call it violent extremism or… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall… — Griffin Jay Copy Share Image
Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The anti-violence people killed westerns when networks knuckled under to the the pressure groups who said violent westerns increased crime in the… — Robert Fuller Copy Share Image
So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two… — Jon Shenk Copy Share Image
Since I didn't have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
![“It's radical Islamic terrorism. And yet, when you see the last eight years, something's gone wrong to call it violent extremism or man-caused disasters. It would be as if we were looking at [Adolf] Hitler in the 1930s. And we were afraid to say that he was a Nazi.” quote by Victor Davis Hanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/victor-davis-hanson-5043_1930s_it-s-radical-islamic-terrorism-and-yet-w_822679.png)
![“I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in…” quote by Ava Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/ava-gardner-8168_abuse_i-dealt-with-men-who-had-tempers-and-who_2636922.jpg)
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