Violent Quotes
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These violent delights have violent ends.
William Shakespeare
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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
Marge Piercy
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People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.
Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
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I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Football is a violent game. We are violent men.
Will Shields
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Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.
Vincent Price
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"I believe it" announced Tafe complacently. "That my dear " said Ambrose "is because you grew up in a rough and violent world here just managing to live from day to day is easily considered a miracle. You are able to accept the truth no matter how astonishing its guise. Whereas our friend Hocker here is steeped in the overweening rationalism of his time and could mentally dismiss a mastodon in front of him if it happened to be wearing the wrong school tie
K. W. Jeter
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
Tony Blair
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I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.
Willem Dafoe
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True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
Holliday Grainger
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A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.
Lao Tzu
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I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.
Murray Head
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On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
Hillary Clinton
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Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
Marianne Williamson
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
William Hazlitt
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When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.
Caroline Lucas
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Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the practical existence of a religious faith is not conceivable.
Adolf Hitler
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When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.
Thomas Sowell
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When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
Eva Gabrielsson
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When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.
Carlo Carra
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I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
William Howard Taft
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Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
William Dunbar