Violent Quotes

• Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

  

  Anne Bogart
  • Art
  • Choice
  • Violent

• The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Justice
  • Jesus

• This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Property
  • Desperate
  • Ecstasy

• Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Culture
  • Hatred
  • Violent

• Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violent
  • Boycott
  • Foreign Cloth

• Violent anger makes me physically ill.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Me
  • Anger
  • Ill

• We need to make sure we're making a distinction between violent felons who are in this country illegally and children who were brought here through no fault of their own, who have grown up here in America.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Children
  • Distinction
  • Grown-Up

• I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Italian
  • Temperament
  • Emoti

• Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Violent
  • Remorse

• I'm not a violent person.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Person
  • Violent

• All I see is sissies in magazines smiling... Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent? Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'? And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Passionate
  • Ass
  • Sissy

• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Trying
  • Study
  • Rings

• Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Why
  • Terrible
  • Flowers

• Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Running
  • Anger
  • Hot

• We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

  

  Will Durant
  • History
  • Wealth
  • Redistribution

• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Violent
  • True Love
  • Demonstrations

• A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.

  

  Mike Farrell
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• Sometimes it's hard to link domestic violence with murder because it's such a broad jump, except it is a domestically violent situation and probably the worst-case scenario in a domestically violent world.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • World
  • Scenario
  • Domestically

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

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Violent
  • Limitations
  • Network

• The content of many cutting-edge games is becoming more and more vivid, violent, and offensive to our most basic values.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Games
  • Cutting
  • Values

• Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

  

  Al Pacino
  • Violent
  • Shakespeare
  • Scarface

• I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Silence
  • Afraid
  • Violent

• A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Nature
  • Violent
  • Efforts

• We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the kind of misery that it enacts on its own people.

  

  Rex W. Tillerson
  • People
  • Chaos
  • Violent

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