Violent Quotes

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But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value,… — Wynton Marsalis
Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the… — Albert Einstein
Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas. — Anna Lindh
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS… — Alan Mollohan
Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or… — Peter Hitchens
Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind. — Ogden Nash
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. — Lydia Lunch
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable. — Stafford Cripps
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. — Henry Home, Lord Kames
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old… — James Hillman
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors. — John Turturro
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking… — Aldous Huxley
The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being… — John Howard Yoder
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,… — Tennessee Williams
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be… — Cyril Connolly
In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national… — Thomas Menino
Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in the… — Unknown Author
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. — Patrick Stewart
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher.… — Cliff Stearns

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