Best 175 quotes in «violent quotes» category

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

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

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

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

If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

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

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.

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

[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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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