Best 175 quotes in «violent quotes» category

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

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 more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

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

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

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

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 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 is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

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

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

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

True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.

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

Violence recoils on the violent.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

We cannot promote someone to Commander-in-Chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment Hillary Clinton has made.

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.

You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence.

8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth. This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!