Violent Quotes

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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man,… — George Santayana
The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The… — Ralph Bunche
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice,… — Anne Bogart
"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.… — Oscar Romero
In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world.… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know… — Glenn Beck
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. — Lowell Bergman
The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a… — Raymond Kelly
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think… — Naomi Wolf
It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of… — Naomi Wolf
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent… — Sam Harris
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing. — Geoffrey Canada
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. — Jacqueline Novogratz
It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to… — Nicholas A. Christakis
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. It gave me a… — Halle Berry
If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist… — Bruce Willis
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks. — Kate Adie
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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