Violent Quotes

1042 Violent quotes by 782 unique authors

Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of… — Howard Zinn
Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. — Robert Crumb
We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for… — Barack Obama
The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance… — James Gilligan
We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in… — Jeremy Clarkson
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because… — Richard Dawkins
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking… — Aaron Spelling
It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen… — Hippocrates
The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and… — Barack Obama
I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence… — Thomas Merton
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. — Oliver Sacks
The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime… — John Longenecker
I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of… — Albert Camus
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and… — Richard Posner
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the… — Mahatma Gandhi
But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I… — Julie Taymor
Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not… — Barack Obama
I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit… — Nolan Bushnell
It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play. — Troy Vincent
Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near… — William Dampier
There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple… — John Galsworthy
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly… — Jean Paul
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it… — Ludwig von Mises
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a… — Bob Saget

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