Violent Quotes

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.