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The most violent element in society is ignorance. -- Emma Goldman
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Gustave Flaubert
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. -- Indira Gandhi
The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. -- Georges Bataille
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. -- Hannah Arendt
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. -- Thomas Jefferson
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable. -- Stafford Cripps
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. -- Adrienne Rich
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. -- Albert Einstein
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people. -- James Lee Burke
What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America. -- Marian Wright Edelman
In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq. -- Seymour Hersh
That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound...I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it. -- Felix Baumgartner
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share. -- Dalai Lama
It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news. -- Eckhart Tolle
Violent consumption demands violent production. -- Bryant McGill
Violent means will give violent freedom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Violent delights tend to have violent ends. -- Richard Ramirez
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. -- William Hazlitt
Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile. -- Francois Fenelon
Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top. -- Petra Kelly
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite. -- Norm MacDonald
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. -- Plato
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. -- Henry Home
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. -- Henry Home
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun.'" -- Nick Robinson
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. -- Honore de Balzac
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. -- Richard King
Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast. -- William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' -- Al Pacino
The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. -- Gerard Way
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
We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping. -- Bennie Thompson
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. -- Ezra Pound
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
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate. -- Ted Nugent
We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative. -- Herb Kohl
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. -- Barbara Deming
Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent. -- Angelina Jolie
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing. -- Ben Shapiro
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
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!' -- Demetri Martin
Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move. -- Ryan Coogler
It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
No, tiny violent one. -- Laini Taylor
No violent extreme endures. -- Thomas Carlyle
We're animals. We're violent. -- Maurice Sendak
Excellent warriors are not violent. -- Laozi
All revolutions are violent revolutions. -- Paul Watson
Necessity is a violent school-mistress. -- Michel de Montaigne
Violence recoils on the violent. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Ideals are peaceful, history is violent. -- David Ayer
Scenery can be a violent stimulant. -- Margaret Drabble
These violent delights have violent ends. -- William Shakespeare
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent. -- Brad Pitt
Ancient Rome was a violent place. -- James Purefoy
The world is too violent right now. -- Jackie Chan
Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind. -- Ogden Nash
Chess is a sport. A violent sport. -- Marcel Duchamp
Never scorn a woman. They get violent. -- Pepper Phillips
The dimensions of my feelings are too violent -- Klaus Kinski
Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ... -- Elizabeth Blackwell
The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent -- Jack Straw
I don't see myself as a violent guy. -- Gene Hackman
Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Frank Layden
How slow life is, how violent hope is. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. -- William Hazlitt
Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled. -- Philo
A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement. -- Ambrose Bierce
The hatred of relatives is the most violent. -- Tacitus
Anything that is non-violent is OK with me. -- Jasmine Guy
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. -- Ogden Nash
I play a lot of ultra-violent video games. -- Cory Monteith
An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. -- Mary Douglas
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. -- Robert Rauschenberg
[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent. -- Woody Allen
Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love. -- Octave Mirbeau
Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own. -- Steven Pinker
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. -- Julian Assange
Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. -- Bob Toski
The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes. -- Paulo Coelho
Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist. -- Sylvester Stallone
Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent. -- Louise Mensch
It's hard to see blessings in a violent culture -- Common
Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. -- Pam Grier
A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet. -- Casey Kasem
By all measures men are the more violent gender. -- Steven Pinker
Football is a violent game. We are violent men. -- Will Shields
Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder. -- Knut Hamsun
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. -- Wyndham Lewis
We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running. -- William Shakespeare
Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death. -- Sarah Vowell
Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant. -- Dov Davidoff
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war. -- Cormac McCarthy
The world is less violent than it has ever been. -- Barack Obama
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I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again. -- Bernhard Goetz
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. -- George Sand
After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food. -- Rudyard Kipling
I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people. -- Shannen Doherty
We live on a restless planet in a violent universe. -- Dale Jamieson
The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes. -- Laozi
The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over. -- Seneca the Younger

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