Violent Quotes

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I’m not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I’ll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they’d hurt you—” “They didn’t,”… — Richelle Mead
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices… — Albert Einstein
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst… — Margery Allingham
If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you… — Henri Nouwen
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have… — James Madison
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are… — Isabel Allende
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts… — Barbara Deming
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man,… — George Santayana
The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The… — Ralph Bunche
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice,… — Anne Bogart
"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.… — Oscar Romero
In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world.… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know… — Glenn Beck
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. — Lowell Bergman
The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a… — Raymond Kelly
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think… — Naomi Wolf
It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of… — Naomi Wolf
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent… — Sam Harris
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing. — Geoffrey Canada
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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