Violent Quotes

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Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into… — D. A. Carson
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not… — Rajneesh
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. — Vincent de Paul
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity… — Ole Hallesby
Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and… — Gloria Whelan
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… — Mark Rothko
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. — Jean Piaget
No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding… — Salman Rushdie
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. — Thomas Jefferson
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. — Robert A. Heinlein
In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and… — Robert Muller
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows… — Peter Sloterdijk
Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent — Betty Williams
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving… — Howard Dean
I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls… — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon… — Stefan Zweig
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. — Philip Yancey
It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy! — Shawn Michaels
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a… — Tom Robbins
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent. — Eli Roth
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is… — Frantz Fanon
Violent delights tend to have violent ends. — Richard Ramirez
But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up,… — Jaimal Yogis
More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. — Hubert H. Humphrey
To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in… — Thomas B. Macaulay

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