Violent Quotes

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A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I… — Italo Calvino
Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. — Steven Pinker
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender. — Steven Pinker
What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art. — Jon Glaser
I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not… — Conor Oberst
My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person… — Chuck Palahniuk
I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also… — Rachel Joyce
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in… — Vladimir Bukovsky
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political… — Dinaw Mengestu
Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not… — Tom Rooney
The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims,… — Richard Dawkins
While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain… — Mustafa Akyol
Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new… — Stanley Hauerwas
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak
All revolutions are violent revolutions. — Paul Watson
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Football is a violent game. We are violent men. — Will Shields
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. — Jane Levy
True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey. — Holliday Grainger

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