Violent Quotes

1042 Violent quotes by 782 unique authors

Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and… — Deb Caletti
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in… — Mahatma Gandhi
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals… — Dinesh D'Souza
Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the… — Amy Tan
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by… — James Madison
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war. — Cormac McCarthy
I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug) — D. J. MacHale
Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history… — Samuel P. Huntington
The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it… — Roland Barthes
It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death,… — Patricia Briggs
Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room… — Sara Gruen
It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope. — Jennifer Donnelly
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed. — Margaret Mitchell
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and… — Hermann Hesse
Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like… — Roger Waters
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous… — Joanne Harris
Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from… — Brian Jacques
A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting… — Robert Cormier
Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique… — Nick Hornby
A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am… — Markus Zusak
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were… — Anais Nin
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally… — James W. Loewen

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