Violent Quotes
1042 quotes by 782 authors
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What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of…
— Mel White
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The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2…
— Unknown Author
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The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort,…
— Dalai Lama
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
— Plato
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Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.
— Unknown Author
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It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also…
— Roy Spencer
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Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
— Olara Otunnu
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and…
— Socrates
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Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the…
— Unknown Author
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
— Xunzi
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We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude…
— Jason Whitlock
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We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or…
— Marc Morial
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The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on…
— Thomas A. Edison
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People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people…
— Mother Teresa
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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 supposed to act.…
— Jim Costa
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Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
— Kate Thornton
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When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always…
— Patty Murray
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You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone…
— David R. Ellis
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In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy…
— David Brin
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