Violent Quotes

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... the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we don't raise boys to be… — Don McPherson
We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in… — Thomas Merton
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities… — Thomas Merton
I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully. — Jeffrey Smart
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And… — Kurt Vonnegut
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were… — Rudolf Hoss
We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level. — Spike Lee
When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to… — Stanley Crouch
These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial… — Leland Yee
Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict. — Kofi Annan
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. — Cal Thomas
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,… — Thomas Jefferson
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical… — Sigmund Freud
The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the… — Sun Tzu
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. — George Sand
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. — Annie Proulx
Chess is a sport. A violent sport. — Marcel Duchamp
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon. — Ruth Bernhard
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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