Violent Quotes

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I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any… — Ehud Olmert
Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the… — Cato the Elder
So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. — John Dryden
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was… — John Dryden
Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is… — Unknown Author
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. — John Milton
I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically… — Craig Ferguson
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with… — Dinaw Mengestu
The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent,… — Edward Abbey
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered… — Samuel Johnson
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying… — Jonathan Swift
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all… — Will Durant
We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done… — Karl Marx
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second… — Thucydides
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping… — Diana Wynne Jones
I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm… — Malcolm X
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. — Bob Filner
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces… — Antonio Gramsci
I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far… — Pol Pot
That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in . — Paul Watson
I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders… — Nelson Mandela
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they've been traveling… — Rand Paul
How slow life is, how violent hope is. — Guillaume Apollinaire
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on… — V. S. Pritchett

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