Violent Quotes

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I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that… — Troy King
Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive,… — Charles Kimball
So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds,… — Frederick Lenz
Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood. — Greg Bryk
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Necessity is a violent school-mistress. — Michel de Montaigne
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. — William Hazlitt
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires… — William Shakespeare
Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never… — John Fugelsang
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every… — Henri Matisse
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust... — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain... — Paul Gauguin
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.Â… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our… — Richard Rohr
For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to… — Steven Pinker
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. — Joanna Baillie
Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have… — Michael Hardt
After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing… — Alan Gottlieb

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