Violent Quotes

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally.

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.

It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death, Perfect For Creating Ghosts.

The priority of the Trump administration is to secure the border and deport criminal aliens; people who are not just here illegally but who are violent criminals. That's the goal.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.

I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

I don't see myself as a violent guy.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.