Best 175 quotes in «violent quotes» category

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

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

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

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

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

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

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

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

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

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

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

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

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

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

No one is suggesting that [violent video games are] the only reason they went out and committed those horrific acts, but was it a tipping point? Was it something that pushed them over the edge? Was it a factor in that? Perhaps. That's a really big deal.

Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.

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

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

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

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

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

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

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

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

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

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

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.

The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.