Violent Quotes - Page 23

• It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.

  J. C. Ryle

  Kings, Rip, Writing

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.309, Whitaker House

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• A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.

  Adele Exarchopoulos

  Art, Sex, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Eggs

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.

  Vincent Cassel

  Thinking, Class, Paris

  Source: collider.com

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• Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I think there's something cathartic about having kids live through their fears through a book or any kind of story.

  Jane Levy

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

  Bill Cosby

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and participation. The listeners critical powers decrease if the propaganda message is more rational and less violent.

  Jacques Ellul

  Information, Messages, Propaganda

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• It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Emotional, Long

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• Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Hands, Revolution

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• The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.

  Sergey Lavrov

  Ukraine, People, Choices

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• Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hate, People, Feelings

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fibre of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Wish, Looks

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• Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

  George Carlin

  Television, Violence

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Climate

  "Ryan Reynolds Talks Blake Lively, Having A Big Family" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

  Eric Hoffer

  Rowdy, Matter, Submissive

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• In TV and film, a little goes a long way. I see the show as horror so a lot of the [violence] is suggested. But it is violent. It is gory. I don't see any need to up the gore. Just to keep it as real and visceral as possible.

  Glen Mazzara

  Real, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind.

  Alex Hirsch

  Worry, Creative, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.

  Jacques Ellul

  Mean, People, Democracy

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• He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

  Henry Fielding

  Reality, Cold, Consumption

  On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic

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• I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.

  Zoe Helene

  People, Watches, Goes On

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• When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Self, World, Firsts

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• Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don't think it's right.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

  Mick Jagger

  Strong, Concern, Dies

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• We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

  Naomi Wolf

  Political, Feminism, Advancement

  The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (1990)

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