Violent Quotes

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After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe,… — Haruki Murakami
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them… — Nick Hornby
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing… — Mahatma Gandhi
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. — Philip Yancey
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to… — Derrick Jensen
Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent… — William Butler Yeats
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent… — Anais Nin
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. — Chuck Palahniuk
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner… — Mark Twain
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling. — Ayn Rand
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one. — Wallace Stevens
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. — John Lennon
Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as… — Henning Mankell
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent. — Eileen Wilks
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men… — Thomas Hobbes
Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!â€ said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by. — Daniel Handler
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant… — Hilary Mantel
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in… — Madeleine Albright

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