Violent Quotes
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I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period. (Violent Quotes)
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. (Violent Quotes)
Violent behavior exists in one’s psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. (Violent Quotes)
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent. (Violent Quotes)
Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world. (Violent Quotes)
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. (Violent Quotes)
When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped people, inspire them with justice. Then the whole world enters your forge. (Violent Quotes)
We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target. (Violent Quotes)
Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire’s decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly. (Violent Quotes)
The War on Drugs has failed, but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties. (Violent Quotes)
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor’s bloodiest and most violent days. (Violent Quotes)
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. (Violent Quotes)
...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century. (Violent Quotes)
The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don’t start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things. (Violent Quotes)
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. (Violent Quotes)
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it’s their fault. (Violent Quotes)
Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don’t benefit from ignorance. We don’t benefit from not knowing the science. (Violent Quotes)
Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people. (Violent Quotes)
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging. (Violent Quotes)
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. (Violent Quotes)
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is ‘cosy.’ (Violent Quotes)
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment. (Violent Quotes)
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments. (Violent Quotes)
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. (Violent Quotes)
America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn’t like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries. (Violent Quotes)
Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy ‘Money’ very quickly, and then I relaxed. (Violent Quotes)
An encounter with God or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of God. (Violent Quotes)
Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me ” so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it. (Violent Quotes)
As a city, we have to face the reality that New York’s minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime. (Violent Quotes)
I don’t look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It’s a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you. (Violent Quotes)