Violent Quotes
1042 quotes by 782 authors
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The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it…
— R C Sproul
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Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.
— Knut Hamsun
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And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never…
— Lauren Oliver
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It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
— Anne Sexton
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What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and…
— Henry Miller
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Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate.…
— Daniel Handler
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The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Are you sulking?†“Me? No. I don’t sulk.†“You sound like you’re sulking.†“I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.
— Derek Landy
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Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse.†“Clarisse?†“Sibling…
— Rick Riordan
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like…
— Veronica Roth
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I’m not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I’ll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they’d hurt you—†“They didn’t, 
— Richelle Mead
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices…
— Albert Einstein
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst…
— Margery Allingham
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If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you…
— Henri Nouwen
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Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have…
— James Madison
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But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are…
— Isabel Allende
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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
— Cesar Chavez
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts…
— Barbara Deming
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We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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