Violently Quotes

123 Violently quotes by 111 unique authors

Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There… — Bayard Rustin
Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of… — Francis Bacon
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful. — Robert M. Gates
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they… — H. L. Mencken
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together… — Eric Hoffer
One never paints violently enough. — Eugene Delacroix
When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance… — Peace Pilgrim
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight… — Rachel Carson
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of… — Douglas Bloch
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and… — William Wordsworth
The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try… — William Faulkner
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work… — Stephen Fry
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. — Joanne Harris
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown. — Dalai Lama
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a… — Gamal Abdel Nasser
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. — George S. Patton
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. — Margaret Sanger
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. — Alexei Sayle
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.… — Colm Toibin
Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently… — Mark Helprin
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to… — Nick Hornby
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in… — Tim Dorsey

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