Violent Quotes

1042 Violent quotes by 782 unique authors

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was… — Mike Tyson
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was… — Thomas Sowell
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent… — Jonah Goldberg
To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women. — Michael Z. Williamson
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were… — John Marsden
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results. — Mahatma Gandhi
In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately… — Mahatma Gandhi
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,… — Mahatma Gandhi
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for… — B.F. Skinner
We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running. — William Shakespeare
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than… — Joseph Addison
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. — Plato
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if… — Laozi
The hatred of relatives is the most violent. — Tacitus
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide… — John Lennon
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. — Anne Stevenson
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… — Primo Levi

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