Violent Quotes
1042 Violent quotes by 782 unique authors
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
— Gene Hackman
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Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods -…
— Ismail Haniyeh
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And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they…
— Patty Hearst
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The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis…
— Simon Hoggart
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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
— Aldous Huxley
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
— Valerie Jarrett
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A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room.…
— Penn Jillette
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I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn…
— Penn Jillette
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It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and…
— Jay-Z
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Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement.…
— Dirk Kempthorne
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
— John F. Kennedy
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
— Billie Jean King
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There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
— Dean Koontz
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Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets…
— Ashton Kutcher
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I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing…
— Spike Lee
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by…
— James Madison
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I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters…
— Demetri Martin
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Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in…
— Shigeru Miyamoto
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of…
— Janet Napolitano
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Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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