Violent Quotes - Page 16

• Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, School, Eye

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• It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then thereare surprises. The daily newspapers raise the most frightening questions of all for a mother of sons: Could my once sweet babes ever become violent men? Are my sons really who I think they are?

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Sweet, Son

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Law, Guarantees, Outcomes

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• Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, Grace

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• You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Blood, Hands, Defense

  "Eight Homilies Against the Jews". Book by Saint John Chrysostom (Homily 6), sourcebooks.fordham.edu.

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• The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Practice, Feelings, Doe

  Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.16

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• They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Slavery, Violence, Slaveholders

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.250, Graphic Arts Books

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• When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.

  Carlo Carra

  Thinking, People, Musical

  "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells" by Carlo Carra (1913), as translated in: Mary Ann Caws "Manifesto: A Century of Isms," p. 203, 2001.

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• youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Disappointment, Expectations

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.2

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• The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

  Seneca the Younger

  Storm

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• We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Peace, Responsibility, Names

  Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam

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• We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did better in terms of people skills, that they managed their emotions, they were less violent and more caring, but they actually did better on their academic achievement tests.

  Linda Lantieri

  Caring, Skills, Numbers

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• When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Rights, People

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 19, 2015.

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• America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

  Barack Obama

  War, America, Islam

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes

  Bonnie Greer

  Criminals, Arseholes, Troll

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• It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Strength, Determination

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• Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Passion, Blow

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• As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Glasses, Appearance, Fragments

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.846, BookRix

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• A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.

  Laozi

  Morning, Wind, Doe

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.23, Booklassic

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• There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

  Vanna Bonta

  Vision, Atrocities, Poverty

  "State of the Art". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2000.

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• Evolution created a violent order where beings eat other beings. Till we change this order and create a harmony between all beings, there shall be no real peace on Earth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Peace, Real

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• May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Children, Heart

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• We're animals. We're violent.

  Maurice Sendak

  Animal

  "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

  Pamela Geller

  Freedom, Savages, Speech

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