Best 175 quotes in «violent quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

[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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

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 forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

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

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

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

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

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The result [of Hillary Clinton policy] will be millions more illegal immigrants; thousands of more violent, horrible crimes; and total chaos and lawlessness. That's what's going to happen, as sure as you're standing there.

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

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

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

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

The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent person, your interpretation of Sharia will be bigoted, violent and misogynistic, if you are a democrat and a pluralist and someone who is peace loving, that's how you'll see the Sharia.

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

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

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

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

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

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