Violent Quotes

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A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies… — Steven Pinker
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who… — Steven Pinker
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife,… — Ezra Pound
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. — Ronald Reagan
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent… — Pat Robertson
I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. — Eli Roth
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of… — Mickey Rourke
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. — Salman Rushdie
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that… — Salman Rushdie
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about… — Salman Rushdie
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize… — John Ruskin
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. — George Sand
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all… — Jerry Seinfeld
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with… — Charlie Sheen
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness… — Anna Deavere Smith
I have never been in a violent movie or television show. — Anna Deavere Smith
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to… — Zadie Smith
I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district… — Sonia Sotomayor
Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist. — Sylvester Stallone
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are… — Sylvester Stallone

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