Violent Quotes - Page 24

• We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

  Diane Ackerman

  Hero, Thinking, Compassion

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• I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

  Henry Rollins

  Smart, Moving, Cheerful

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• In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are raised in such a hostile and violent environment, how can we hope for a harmonious future for all people of this world? In this light, the purpose of human life is to achieve our own spiritual evolution, to get rid of negativity, to establish harmony among our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual quadrants, to learn to live in harmony within the family, community, nation, ..treating all of mankind as brothers and sisters.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Spiritual, Brother, Children

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• I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

  Dave Barry

  Flower, Jeans, Bells

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• [William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.

  Sophia Loren

  Crazy, Mean, Eye

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• The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

  Jean Cocteau

  Attitude, Reality, Balance

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• I'm crazy about the fact that the Jewish people should survive because they have so much to contribute and so many values to contribute to the world. It would be a much better world, a much more peaceful and non-violent world if we lived by Jewish values.

  Jackie Mason

  Crazy, Jewish Values, People

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• A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.

  Erykah Badu

  Beautiful, Home, Body

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I`m quite confident that when you spew out hateful [anti-islam]rhetoric, you green-light people who are - who have violent and who are dangerous, and that`s why we have to watch what we say. Words do matter.

  Steve King

  Light, People, Islam

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Pain, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

  Vincent Cassel

  Reality, Thinking, Light

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.

  Richard Grossman

  Life Changing, Writing, School

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Horror Stories, Challenges, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.

  Norm MacDonald

  Children, Spring, Kids

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• Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Photography, Communication, Contact

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• I had a role in developing the doctrine From the Sea, which was later modified to Forward From the Sea. But the way we looked at the situation was that the world we live in is a dangerous place. There's a violent peace out there, there are going to be problems over the horizon, and certainly that proved to be true.

  Sam Smith

  Sea, World, Way

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• The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution, Impossible, States

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• Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps.

  Dana Gould

  Love Is, Intensity, Cramps

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• Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant.

  Dov Davidoff

  Ignorant, Racist

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• The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

  Pierre Klossowski

  Violent Acts, Ideas, Primitive

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• ... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.

  Orlando Rodriguez

  Daughter, Revenge, Son

  "Readings from Howard Zinn’s 'Voices of a People’s History of the United States'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 20, 2006.

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• There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

  Ayn Rand

  Passion, Artist, Desire

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

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• Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Issues, Creative

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Differences, Revolution, Events

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• I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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