Violent Quotes

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Property
  • Desperate
  • Ecstasy

• 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

• 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

• Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Violent
  • Remorse

• Violent anger makes me physically ill.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Me
  • Anger
  • Ill

• I'm not a violent person.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Person
  • Violent

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Why
  • Terrible
  • Flowers

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Al Pacino
  • Violent
  • Shakespeare
  • Scarface

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

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Violent
  • Limitations
  • Network

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

  

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

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

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Cutting
  • Games
  • Values

• 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.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Song
  • Violent
  • Rage

• It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Fire
  • Intense

• Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Strong
  • Die
  • Question

• In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Art
  • Mutual
  • Disagreement

• The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Prejudice
  • Confirmation
  • Human Understanding

• A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.

  

  Adele Exarchopoulos
  • Art
  • Challenge
  • Sex

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