Best 175 quotes in «violent quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

[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.

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

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.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

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.

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

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

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

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.

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

The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

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

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

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

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

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

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