Violent Quotes

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the kind of misery that it enacts on its own people.

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

No violent extreme endures.

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.