Best 175 quotes in «violent quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

[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.

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.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

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.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

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.

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 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 hatred of relatives is the most violent.

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