Violent Quotes

1042 Violent quotes by 782 unique authors

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline… — John Blair
An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. — Mary Douglas
Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent. — Nicolaus Copernicus
I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there… — Sara Gilbert
I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes… — Alexander Walker
During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were. — Patty Hearst
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state… — Mary Ann Mobley
It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise… — Morarji Desai
Let us love temperately, things violent last not. — Philip Massinger
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. — Clive Barker
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. — Alfred Adler
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 play a violent sport. — Shaun Alexander
I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive… — Lou Barletta
Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are… — Jan Brewer
The world is too violent right now. — Jackie Chan
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. — Karen Armstrong
Ancient Rome was a violent place. — James Purefoy
We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping. — Bennie Thompson
I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty… — Wilbur Smith
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent… — Michel Onfray
The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem… — Tariq Ramadan
The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government… — Nelson Mandela

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