Violent Quotes
1042 quotes by 782 authors
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look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're a wolf, or…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all…
— Demetri Martin
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I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
— Virginia Woolf
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Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his…
— James A. Baldwin
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Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons…
— John Ruskin
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The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
— Hugo Chavez
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All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really…
— Suzanne Collins
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Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.
— Stephenie Meyer
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I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a…
— Maya Banks
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The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking…
— Harold Pinter
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Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned;…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into a violent frenzy…
— Ilona Andrews
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The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew,…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him,…
— Rebecca West
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When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.
— Steig Larsson
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Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.
— Huey Newton
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Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
— Unknown Author
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