Violent Quotes
1042 quotes by 805 authors
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam…
— Karen Armstrong
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I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild…
— Lester Bangs
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to…
— Michael Badnarik
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is…
— Honore de Balzac
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This…
— Albert Bandura
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
— Joseph Addison
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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority…
— Alfred Adler
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do…
— Annie Besant
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to…
— Tony Blair
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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and…
— Jerry Brown
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in…
— James Lee Burke
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Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and…
— George W. Bush
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine…
— Nolan Bushnell
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No violent extreme endures.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at…
— Jim Carrey
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
— Jackie Chan
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent…
— George Chapman
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On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
— Hillary Clinton
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