Violent Quotes
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War takes people’s lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world’s problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant the seeds for the next violent conflict as the vanquished and their children will usually not accept the outcome (Violent Quotes)
The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it (Violent Quotes)
If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it (Violent Quotes)
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 (Violent Quotes)
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 (Violent Quotes)
These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence (Violent Quotes)
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble (Violent Quotes)
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon (Violent Quotes)
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness (Violent Quotes)
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent (Violent Quotes)
At heart, we’re all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists (Violent Quotes)
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He had learned early in his life that before any violent gesture there is a moment when the act is born, not as something that can be seen or felt, but by the change it precipitates in the air (Violent Quotes)
That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in (Violent Quotes)
Healing of the world’s woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart (Violent Quotes)
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description (Violent Quotes)
Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous (Violent Quotes)
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults (Violent Quotes)
When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they’re supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way men will treat them (Violent Quotes)
Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there’s no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners (Violent Quotes)
I don’t feel comfortable with violence, and I’m not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it’s something I’m reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films (Violent Quotes)
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like (Violent Quotes)
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them (Violent Quotes)
I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don’t think there’s going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase (Violent Quotes)
How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins (Violent Quotes)
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within (Violent Quotes)
It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets (Violent Quotes)
When a seed sprouts, it’s a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that’s opening in order to let the new emerge (Violent Quotes)
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause (Violent Quotes)
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games (Violent Quotes)
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority (Violent Quotes)