Quotes about Violent

The most violent element in society is ignorance. Votes: 6

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. Votes: 6

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Votes: 6

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Votes: 6

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Votes: 6

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Votes: 6

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork. Votes: 4

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Votes: 4

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. Votes: 4

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. Votes: 4

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Votes: 4

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable. Votes: 4

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. Votes: 4

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. Votes: 4

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America. Votes: 4

In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq. Votes: 4

That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound...I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it. Votes: 4

The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share. Votes: 4

It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news. Votes: 4

Violent consumption demands violent production. Votes: 3

Violent means will give violent freedom. Votes: 3

Violent delights tend to have violent ends. Votes: 3

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse. Votes: 3

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. Votes: 3

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile. Votes: 3

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top. Votes: 3

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. Votes: 3

Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite. Votes: 3

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. Votes: 3

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Votes: 3

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. Votes: 3

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. Votes: 3

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. Votes: 3

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun.'" Votes: 3

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. Votes: 3

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. Votes: 3

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast. Votes: 3

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' Votes: 2

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. Votes: 2

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. Votes: 2

We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping. Votes: 2

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. Votes: 2

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider. Votes: 2

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate. Votes: 2

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative. Votes: 2

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Votes: 2

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can. Votes: 2

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent. Votes: 2

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. Votes: 2

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. Votes: 2

The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing. Votes: 2

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day. Votes: 2

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!' Votes: 2

Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move. Votes: 2

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread. Votes: 2

No, tiny violent one. Votes: 0

No violent extreme endures. Votes: 0

We're animals. We're violent. Votes: 0

Excellent warriors are not violent. Votes: 0

All revolutions are violent revolutions. Votes: 0

Necessity is a violent school-mistress. Votes: 0

Violence recoils on the violent. Votes: 0

Ideals are peaceful, history is violent. Votes: 0

Scenery can be a violent stimulant. Votes: 0

These violent delights have violent ends. Votes: 0

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent. Votes: 0

Ancient Rome was a violent place. Votes: 0

The world is too violent right now. Votes: 0

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind. Votes: 0

Chess is a sport. A violent sport. Votes: 0

Never scorn a woman. They get violent. Votes: 0

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent Votes: 0

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ... Votes: 0

The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent Votes: 0

I don't see myself as a violent guy. Votes: 0

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds. Votes: 0

How slow life is, how violent hope is. Votes: 0

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. Votes: 0

Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled. Votes: 0

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement. Votes: 0

The hatred of relatives is the most violent. Votes: 0

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me. Votes: 0

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. Votes: 0

I play a lot of ultra-violent video games. Votes: 0

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. Votes: 0

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action. Votes: 0

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. Votes: 0

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. Votes: 0

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent. Votes: 0

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds. Votes: 0

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love. Votes: 0

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own. Votes: 0

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. Votes: 0

Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. Votes: 0

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes. Votes: 0

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist. Votes: 0

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent. Votes: 0

It's hard to see blessings in a violent culture Votes: 0

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. Votes: 0

A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet. Votes: 0

By all measures men are the more violent gender. Votes: 0

Football is a violent game. We are violent men. Votes: 0

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder. Votes: 0

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. Votes: 0

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running. Votes: 0

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death. Votes: 0

Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant. Votes: 0

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war. Votes: 0

The world is less violent than it has ever been. Votes: 0

I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside. Votes: 0

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again. Votes: 0

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. Votes: 0

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food. Votes: 0

I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people. Votes: 0

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe. Votes: 0

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes. Votes: 0

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience. Votes: 0

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over. Votes: 0

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent. Votes: 0

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent. Votes: 0

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight. Votes: 0

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way. Votes: 0

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning... Votes: 0

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. Votes: 0

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity. Votes: 0

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent. Votes: 0

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation. Votes: 0

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. Votes: 0

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way. Votes: 0

Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic. Votes: 0

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites. Votes: 0

Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently... Votes: 0

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood. Votes: 0

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. Votes: 0

In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides. Votes: 0

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing. Votes: 0

For someone so violent, he has a gentle face, doesn't he? Votes: 0

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it. Votes: 0

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Votes: 0

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them Votes: 0

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink. Votes: 0

I have never been in a violent movie or television show. Votes: 0

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind. Votes: 0

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means. Votes: 0

Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society. Votes: 0

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction. Votes: 0

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen. Votes: 0

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads. Votes: 0

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent. Votes: 0

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. Votes: 0

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen. Votes: 0

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American. Votes: 0

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man. Votes: 0

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. Votes: 0

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent. Votes: 0

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy! Votes: 0

The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent. Votes: 0

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent. Votes: 0

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution. Votes: 0

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night. Votes: 0

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured. Votes: 0

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. Votes: 0

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper. Votes: 0

I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter. Votes: 0

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult. Votes: 0

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball. Votes: 0

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color. Votes: 0

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people. Votes: 0

When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred. Votes: 0

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. Votes: 0

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly! Votes: 0

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies. Votes: 0

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude. Votes: 0

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. Votes: 0

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent. Votes: 0

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent. Votes: 0

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. Votes: 0

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent. Votes: 0

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent. Votes: 0

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade. Votes: 0

Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour. Votes: 0

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. Votes: 0

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. Votes: 0

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy. Votes: 0

We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths. Votes: 0

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience. Votes: 0

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. Votes: 0

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects. Votes: 0

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. Votes: 0

violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature. Votes: 0

If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy. Votes: 0

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period. Votes: 0

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion. Votes: 0

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' Votes: 0

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak Votes: 0

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims. Votes: 0

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. Votes: 0

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence. Votes: 0

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth. Votes: 0

Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love. Votes: 0

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy. Votes: 0

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it. Votes: 0

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all. Votes: 0

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice. Votes: 0

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. Votes: 0

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. Votes: 0

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. Votes: 0

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing. Votes: 0

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. Votes: 0

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means. Votes: 0

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive. Votes: 0

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything. Votes: 0

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. Votes: 0

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first. Votes: 0

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power. Votes: 0

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up. Votes: 0

Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it. Votes: 0

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action. Votes: 0

I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world. Votes: 0

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return. Votes: 0

There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people. Votes: 0

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. Votes: 0

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. Votes: 0

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. Votes: 0

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men! Votes: 0

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent. Votes: 0

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally. Votes: 0

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. Votes: 0

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. Votes: 0

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists. Votes: 0

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate. Votes: 0

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain... Votes: 0

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. Votes: 0

True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means. Votes: 0

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. Votes: 0

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence. Votes: 0

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' Votes: 0

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories. Votes: 0

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively. Votes: 0

The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. Votes: 0

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement. Votes: 0

Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement. Votes: 0

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it. Votes: 0

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. Votes: 0

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. Votes: 0

We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes Votes: 0

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie. Votes: 0

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. Votes: 0

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. Votes: 0

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine. Votes: 0

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits. Votes: 0

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. Votes: 0

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. Votes: 0

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one. Votes: 0

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art. Votes: 0

My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. Votes: 0

It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing. Votes: 0

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent. Votes: 0

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. Votes: 0

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent. Votes: 0

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop. Votes: 0

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act. Votes: 0

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. Votes: 0

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing. Votes: 0

Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred. Votes: 0

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get. Votes: 0

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent. Votes: 0

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism. Votes: 0

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea. Votes: 0

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. Votes: 0

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. Votes: 0

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn. Votes: 0

History has always been violent, unstoppable and bound to happen; either with or without you. Acknowledge it. Votes: 0

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one. Votes: 0

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. Votes: 0

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated. Votes: 0

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest. Votes: 0

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent Votes: 0

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun. Votes: 0

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. Votes: 0

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent Votes: 0

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. Votes: 0

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama. Votes: 0

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991. Votes: 0

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. Votes: 0

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. Votes: 0

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now. Votes: 0

There isn't a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself. Votes: 0

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent! Votes: 0

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death. Votes: 0

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be. Votes: 0

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes. Votes: 0

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position. Votes: 0

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'. Votes: 0

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person. Votes: 0

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. Votes: 0

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches. Votes: 0

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict. Votes: 0

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Votes: 0

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. Votes: 0

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. Votes: 0

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs. Votes: 0

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey. Votes: 0

I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person. Votes: 0

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent. Votes: 0

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. Votes: 0

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results. Votes: 0

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. "How come I never get invited on these violent trips? Votes: 0

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction. Votes: 0

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. Votes: 0

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too. Votes: 0

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting. Votes: 0

Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society. Votes: 0

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts. Votes: 0

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't Votes: 0

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent. Votes: 0

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't. Votes: 0

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. Votes: 0

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies. Votes: 0

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug) Votes: 0

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. Votes: 0

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. Votes: 0

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day. Votes: 0

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born. Votes: 0

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust... Votes: 0

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous. Votes: 0

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution. Votes: 0

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who? Votes: 0

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. Votes: 0

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me "“ so extreme, so violent that I wasn't sure I'd survive it. Votes: 0

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up. Votes: 0

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. Votes: 0

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are. Votes: 0

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully. Votes: 0

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. Votes: 0

Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done. Votes: 0

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings. Votes: 0

Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent. Votes: 0

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. Votes: 0

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. Votes: 0

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume Votes: 0

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side. Votes: 0

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. Votes: 0

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures. Votes: 0

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists. Votes: 0

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever. Votes: 0

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. Votes: 0

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. Votes: 0

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. Votes: 0

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever. Votes: 0

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play. Votes: 0

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. Votes: 0

Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps. Votes: 0

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary. Votes: 0

To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women. Votes: 0

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death. Votes: 0

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law. Votes: 0

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always. Votes: 0

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team. Votes: 0

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy, I'm a typical American waist deep in this violent culture. Votes: 0

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. Votes: 0

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. Votes: 0

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. Votes: 0

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else. Votes: 0

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well. Votes: 0

...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial] Votes: 0

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country. Votes: 0

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time. Votes: 0

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. Votes: 0

So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping. Votes: 0

Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern. Votes: 0

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. Votes: 0

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are. Votes: 0

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. Votes: 0

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. Votes: 0

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Votes: 0

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world. Votes: 0

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. Votes: 0

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. Votes: 0

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime. Votes: 0

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen. Votes: 0

Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners. Votes: 0

Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns. Votes: 0

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action. Votes: 0

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality. Votes: 0

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful. Votes: 0

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent. Votes: 0

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. Votes: 0

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. Votes: 0

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. Votes: 0

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming. Votes: 0

The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes! Votes: 0

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. Votes: 0

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god. Votes: 0

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. Votes: 0

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. Votes: 0

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal. Votes: 0

A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge. Votes: 0

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed. Votes: 0

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry. Votes: 0

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power Votes: 0

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle. Votes: 0

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious. Votes: 0

One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent. Votes: 0

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. Votes: 0

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence. Votes: 0

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. Votes: 0

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ... Votes: 0

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks. Votes: 0

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. Votes: 0

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. Votes: 0

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written. Votes: 0

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that. Votes: 0

I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom. Votes: 0

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art. Votes: 0

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent. Votes: 0

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners. Votes: 0

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest. Votes: 0

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were. Votes: 0

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. Votes: 0

Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way? Votes: 0

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans. Votes: 0

America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist. Votes: 0

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. Votes: 0

Exercise will aid in the work of digestion. Take a walk after a meal; but no violent exercise after a full meal. Votes: 0

Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence. Votes: 0

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. Votes: 0

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent. Votes: 0

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault. Votes: 0

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women. Votes: 0

I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department. Votes: 0

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man! Votes: 0

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back. Votes: 0

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender. Votes: 0

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. Votes: 0

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means. Votes: 0

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. Votes: 0

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in . Votes: 0

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors. Votes: 0

The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. Votes: 0

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it. Votes: 0

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. Votes: 0

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible, Votes: 0

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way. Votes: 0

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise. Votes: 0

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon. Votes: 0

We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression. Votes: 0

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. Votes: 0

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent. Votes: 0

I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things. Votes: 0

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near. Votes: 0

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers? Votes: 0

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart. Votes: 0

I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' Votes: 0

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults Votes: 0

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned. Votes: 0

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency than anytime in the last three, four decades. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions. Votes: 0

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. Votes: 0

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved. Votes: 0

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense. Votes: 0

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall. Votes: 0

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint. Votes: 0

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light. Votes: 0

This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light. Votes: 0

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. Votes: 0

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica. Votes: 0

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another. Votes: 0

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom Votes: 0

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom. Votes: 0

What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever. Votes: 0

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends. Votes: 0

I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know and love. Votes: 0

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fu*kers to turn the music down. Votes: 0

If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time. Votes: 0