Ferocity Quotes

• I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

  Veronica Roth

  Weakness, Cowardice, Cruelty

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• I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Running, Dream, Passion

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• The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Passion, People, Done

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Men, Compassion

  1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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• All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

  John W. Gardner

  Law, Natural, Species

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• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life
  seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Opportunity, Challenges

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained.

  Ibn Khaldun

  History, Rural Life, Doe

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• ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

  Markus Zusak

  Talent, Swear

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.

  Ben Lerner

  Cutting, Fog, Feelings

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• The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

  Havelock Ellis

  Birthday, Smell, Silence

  Impressions and Comments (1914)

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• It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

  Fred F. Fielding

  Believe, Years, Political

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• We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Character, Doors

  "The Common Reader: First series".

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• I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

  Roxane Gay

  Ambition, Trying, Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Despair, Tasks, Lucidity

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.26, Arcade Publishing

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• Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to mind the contained ferocity of a lioness. But it was the fierceness in Kate's bright blue eyes that had the most striking effect. The sort of look that made you thankful she wasn't your enemy. "It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly "Until we say so.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Eye, Blue, Mind

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• Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

  Alex Lemon

  Writing, Doe, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

  Christina Stead

  Struggle, Passion, Intelligent

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• The world would see the beauty of the packaging, but only I knew the man inside it and how precious he was. His intimate smiles and his deep husky laugh, the gentleness of his touch and the ferocity of his passion were all reserved for me.

  Sylvia Day

  Passion, Men, Laughing

  Sylvia Day (2012). “Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel”, p.284, Sylvia Day, LLC

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• Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

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• My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.

  Henry James

  Jealous, Ideas, Doubt

  "Pictures and Other Passages from Henry James".

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• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

  Lord Byron

  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

  C. L. R. James

  Men, Long, Wonder

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• An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

  Peter Farb

  War, Communication, People

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

  Frank Herbert

  Lessons, Teach, Shows

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