Violent Quotes
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Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light (Violent Quotes)
If... The motion of the Earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since... Nothing violent is eternal.... It follows, therefore, that the Earth is not moved with a circular motion (Violent Quotes)
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow (Violent Quotes)
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short (Violent Quotes)
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love (Violent Quotes)
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work (Violent Quotes)
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself (Violent Quotes)
It was as if a morning glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious (Violent Quotes)
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them - violence (Violent Quotes)
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world (Violent Quotes)
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state (Violent Quotes)
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the furies of private interest (Violent Quotes)
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary (Violent Quotes)
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 (Violent Quotes)
The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches (Violent Quotes)
Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power (Violent Quotes)
Girls, like the priestesses of old, should be educated only in sacred places, and never hear, nor much less see, what is rude, immoral, or violent (Violent Quotes)
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order (Violent Quotes)
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff (Violent Quotes)
Alec didn't normally consider himself a violent man, but sometimes, arms simply needed to be removed (Violent Quotes)
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases (Violent Quotes)
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man (Violent Quotes)
It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way (Violent Quotes)
I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right (Violent Quotes)
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too (Violent Quotes)
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live (Violent Quotes)
These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume (Violent Quotes)
I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure (Violent Quotes)
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence (Violent Quotes)
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him (Violent Quotes)