Violent Quotes

I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.

I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

Violent means will give violent freedom.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

We're animals. We're violent.

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.

If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more.

Evolution created a violent order where beings eat other beings. Till we change this order and create a harmony between all beings, there shall be no real peace on Earth.

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!

Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.

Take giant leaps. Too many companies are into incremental innovation. The only thing that moves markets is violent turns. Major differences. Don't get caught in the trap of small steps.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.