Violent Quotes

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A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for… — B.F. Skinner
We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running. — William Shakespeare
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than… — Joseph Addison
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. — Plato
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if… — Laozi
The hatred of relatives is the most violent. — Tacitus
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide… — John Lennon
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. — Anne Stevenson
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… — Primo Levi
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their… — Joseph de Maistre
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and… — Lord Acton
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever. — Ken Burns
Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death. — Sarah Vowell
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive… — Russell Hoban

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