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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
— James D. Watkins
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.
— Jon Glaser
We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
— William Shakespeare
They could only stare at Esme's shoes and wonder why she as wearing footwear that was so violent and impractical.
— Lemony Snicket
Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.
— ASAP Rocky
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
— George Sand
States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power
— Noam Chomsky
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
— Chuck Palahniuk
We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
— Betty Williams
If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.
— Sarah Parcak
Pictures of naked women and strip dancers make me violent
— Marilyn Manson
Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.
— Monica Baldwin
While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
You made the chaos in me feel less like a violent whirling and gave me a silence that felt like home.
— William C. Hannan
Birdie's presence was gentle and quiet, but her absence is violent.
— Lauren DeStefano
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
— Philip Massinger
I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.
— DeObia Oparei
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
— Maggie Stiefvater
On't worry about the goddamn bastards. The two words sounded shockingly violent, because his face and voice remained calm.
— Ayn Rand
Although unavailable for analysis the moment it happens, being struck a violent blow on the head is a very interesting experience.
— Michael Cisco
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. --John Woods comp.lang.c++
— Jeff Knupp
The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
— David Eagleman
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
— Flea
Violent delights tend to have violent ends.
— Richard Ramirez
We're animals. We're violent.
— Maurice Sendak
VIOLENT HOOLA-HOOPING!!!!!!
— Dave Carley
If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.
— Rick James
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
— Isaac Watts
The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
— Paulo Coelho
Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near. — Hilda Doolittle
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near. — Hilda Doolittle
Each hour, every hour of peace was a treasure. War boiled black and violent on the horizon, and when it came, it would engulf the world.
— Nalini Singh
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
— Michel De Montaigne
When it feels scary to jump, that's exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can't do.
— J. C. Chandor
Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.
— John Irving
Johnny pats his son on the back like the owner of a violent dog trying to keep it on a leash.
— Bijou Hunter
I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy, I'm a typical American waist deep in this violent culture.
— Henry Rollins
A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.
— Ambrose Bierce
They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.
— Tupac Shakur
She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.
— Ali Smith
Pacifism, not murder, is precedent. To say that war presupposes peace begs the question; it does not explain how violent impulses can be overcome. In
— Sarah LaChance Adams
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
— T. S. Eliot
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence
helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories. — Warren Zevon
helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories. — Warren Zevon
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The offender was determined to be extremely violent, in official terms. Completely fucking crazy, in other words.
— John Ajvide Lindqvist
All revolutions are violent revolutions.
— Paul Watson
Children will always learn from us. If we are angry, abusive and violent ... how can we ever expect them to be peaceful?
— Timothy Pina
It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot ... It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.
— Jennifer Donnelly
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
— Maajid Nawaz
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
— Sam Harris
The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.
— Vanessa Veselka
My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.
— Colin Quinn
Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.
— Patty Hearst
I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world.
— Lil B
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
People who can't hack it as Irwins because they're too violent go into the air travel industry.
— Mira Grant
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
— Leo Tolstoy
The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!
— Shawn Michaels
When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'
— Gerard Way
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
— Marilyn Manson
For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.
— Walton Goggins
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
— Mickey Rourke
Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.
— Deepak Chopra
I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
— Anna Deavere Smith
We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.
— Spike Lee
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.
— Satoshi Tajiri
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.
— Brian Sutton-Smith
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
— William Shakespeare
The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht
There was never a moment ... when I forgot my hatred of you. It's almost like ... a violent hatred that resembles love.
— Kaori Yuki
There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.
— Cesar Chavez
We are all impatient as long as we are imperfect. It is the mark of the child that he is in a violent hurry where men are steady.
— Anonymous
The constant life and death struggles of the Everglades violent and implacable, but not mean, never mean.
— Patrick Astre
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
— Jose Padilha
I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.
— Jeffrey Smart
I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.
— Victoria Holt
We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.
— Jayme K.
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...
— Hannah More
Are you sulking?"
"Me? No. I don't sulk."
"You sound like you're sulking."
"I'm just waiting for the violent urges to subside. — Derek Landy
"Me? No. I don't sulk."
"You sound like you're sulking."
"I'm just waiting for the violent urges to subside. — Derek Landy