Violent Quotes

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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple… — John Galsworthy
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly… — Jean Paul
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it… — Ludwig von Mises
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a… — Bob Saget
Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into… — D. A. Carson
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not… — Rajneesh
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. — Vincent de Paul
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity… — Ole Hallesby
Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and… — Gloria Whelan
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… — Mark Rothko
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. — Jean Piaget
No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding… — Salman Rushdie
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. — Thomas Jefferson
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. — Robert A. Heinlein
In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and… — Robert Muller
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows… — Peter Sloterdijk
Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent — Betty Williams
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving… — Howard Dean
I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls… — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

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