Violent Quotes - Page 13

• The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.

  Peter MacKay

  Law, Justice, Democracy

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• You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City. You're going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It's going to be very violent in America.

  Gerald Celente

  Country, Cities, America

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• ...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, People

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• Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

  Will Shields

  Football, Men, Games

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• The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

  Lowell Bergman

  Wind, Organization, People

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• Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

  Susan Estrich

  Sports, Fun, Animal

  Susan Estrich (2016). “Love of Country: Discovering confidence in humanity, law and politics”, p.20, Creators Publishing

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• You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Voice, Stories, Treasure

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• The world is less violent than it has ever been.

  Barack Obama

  World

  "Obama: 'The World Is Less Violent Than It Has Ever Been'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 11, 2014.

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• Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.

  Gjon Mili

  Texture, Movement, Made

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• Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

  Michel Onfray

  Needs, Philosopher, Conflict

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• For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Honesty, Years, Fiction

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• There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.

  Will Tuttle

  Spiritual, Compassion, Way

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.380, Lantern Books

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• Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Frank Layden

  Soul, Mind, Suffering

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• It's possible to transform the violent energy of our time into a culture of kindness.
  All things are possible through the openness of our mind, the gentleness of our spirit, and the act of understanding and embracing.

  Lily Yeh

  Kindness, Understanding, Mind

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• The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Garden

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.4

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• The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Spooky, Felt

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Bleak House”, p.503, Xist Publishing

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• If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.

  Michael Parenti

  Running, Gun, Government

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• 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

  Cutting, Ties, Fundamentals

  "Are your friends making you fat?" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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• War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

  Kate Adie

  War, Risk, Natural

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• The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

  Thomas Cahill

  Kings, Husband, Father

  Thomas Cahill (2011). “How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.

  Alexandra Potter

  Missing Someone, Block, Loss

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• Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Struggle, Two, Tree

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• Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Enemy, Atheism, Clergy

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Doubt, Atheism

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• I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

  Kevin Hart

  Firsts, Situation, Fronts

  "Ice Cube & Kevin Hart: The Newest Buddy Comedy Stars". Interview, www.refinery29.com.

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