I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
What Brad Bushman did is in 2010 he ran what's called a meta-analysis, which is an analysis that looks at a whole… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
We don't want peace over freedom. We will choose freedom over peace. We will go on with our fight for self-determination and… — Zainab al-Khawaja Copy Share Image
Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted… — Carlos Cuaron Copy Share Image
The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal is to resist with her fists: That tends to… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
There is a reason Christianity is violently opposed in our world while other religions and philosophies are tolerated... Biblical Christianity evokes violent… — Carman Copy Share Image
I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands… — Orlando Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to… — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way? — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing.… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
“if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Football is a violent, violent sport, and you have to practice that way in order to get at elite levels on Saturday,… — Tom Herman Copy Share Image
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump has been saying that on, day one, the violent undocumented immigrants will be - will leave the country. But what… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response,… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image