Violent Quotes

• The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Law
  • Safe
  • Begets

• Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

  

  John Ensign
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Crime

• Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Situation
  • Peaceful

• ... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Personality
  • Eternity
  • Violent

• You made the chaos in me feel less like a violent whirling and gave me a silence that felt like home.

  

  William C. Hannon
  • Silence
  • Chaos
  • Violent

• No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Should
  • Hands
  • Endure

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

  

  Barack Obama
  • Enough
  • Violent
  • Hopelessness

• It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Darkness
  • Flame
  • Torrents

• I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what the country went through, and despite how violent and tribal it can be, there is still a certain purity to the kindness of the population.

  

  Arwa Damon
  • Kindness
  • Population
  • Iraq

• I will not be violent," I chant-mutter. "I will not be violent. I am peaceful and good. I do not want to give anyone the finger.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Peaceful
  • Violent
  • I Am Not

• Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.

  

  Gary Kleck
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Population

• The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.

  

  Ursula Vernon
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Book

• We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.

  

  James Hutton
  • Power
  • Violent
  • Exertion

• It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.

  

  Mike Newell
  • Violent
  • Basically
  • Anarchist

• I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.

  

  Zoe Helene
  • People
  • Violence
  • Persons

• I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Drama
  • Crime
  • Violent

• The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

  

  Deborah Kampmeier
  • Speak
  • DNA
  • Silencing

• Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Digs

• I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Truth
  • Identity
  • Christianity

• After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Food
  • Emotion
  • Violent

• The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.

  

  Tacitus
  • Hatred
  • Violent

• I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Violence
  • Grew
  • Introduction

• A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.

  

  William Gibson
  • Culture
  • Violence
  • Realizing

• For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Honesty
  • Corruption
  • Realistic

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