Violent Quotes

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of people who took to the street in a non-violent way against dictators.

America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Not everyone is violent in a violence infected country or society. In those countries and societies many parents unknowingly teach their children hatred and violence.

Any society that justifies violence against any human being for any reason will be a violent society. It will ultimately infect and affect the whole society. Everyone will suffer.

When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.

An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.

Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues!’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love.

Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.

If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes.

Prejudice is an act of violence.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

Do not be devilish.

If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

This is an era of violent peace.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.