Amusing Quote by Harold Anthony Oaks

You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes.…

— Salman Rushdie

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as…

— James S.A. Corey

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple…

— Russell M. Nelson

We take the violence very seriously. You have to make sure that you are telling a story as well, that it is not just…

— David Morrissey

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a…

— Herman Kahn

If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each…

— John Gimlette

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will…

— Xavier Dolan

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible…

— Carroll Quigley

“I still can’t wrap my mind around crossing that line of human behavior – civilized people punching and fighting, making violence their communication of…

— Rachel Thompson

“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become—as a woman thinks, so she is. If we absorb hour upon…

— Oprah Winfrey

Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value.…

— Jack Donovan

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

— Frank Herbert