Violent Quotes

1042 Violent quotes by 782 unique authors

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have… — Ted Nugent
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far,… — Bill O'Reilly
Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' — Al Pacino
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side. — Mandy Patinkin
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. — Rick Perry
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way. — Steven Pinker
By all measures men are the more violent gender. — Steven Pinker
Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own. — Steven Pinker
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives. — Steven Pinker
I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress… — Steven Pinker
A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies… — Steven Pinker
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who… — Steven Pinker
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife,… — Ezra Pound
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. — Ronald Reagan
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent… — Pat Robertson
I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. — Eli Roth
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of… — Mickey Rourke
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. — Salman Rushdie
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that… — Salman Rushdie
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about… — Salman Rushdie
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize… — John Ruskin
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. — George Sand
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all… — Jerry Seinfeld
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with… — Charlie Sheen
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness… — Anna Deavere Smith

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