Claudius Claudianus Quotes

Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.

Claudius Claudianus

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Violence

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot

• When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Simple

• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Action

• In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • City
  • Violence

• I like a quiet life.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Life
  • Like
  • Quiet

• Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Live
  • Free

• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Intelligence

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Well

• I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Violence
  • Serious
  • Waiting

• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Decades
  • Until

• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Violence

• Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • World
  • May

• That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

  

  Andra Day
  • Song
  • Control
  • Jazz

• It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Boy
  • Pride

• My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Work
  • Great
  • Father

• Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Violence
  • Authority
  • Quiet