Violent Quotes - Page 37

• To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.

  Noel Gallagher

  Character, And Love, Flip

  Interview with Brent DiCrescenzo, www.timeout.com. December 7, 2008.

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• I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.

  Noel Gallagher

  Football, Home, Winter

  "Who wants to be a drug addict at 41?". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2008.

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• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Men, Violent Man

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• Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Hatred, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (1949). “Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

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• Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

  Gene Hackman

  Guy, Hollywood, Saws

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• Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Overcoming, World, Causes

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• And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

  Patty Hearst

  Hurt, Feelings, Faces

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• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

  Simon Hoggart

  Drug, Hollywood, Groups

  "What do men guilty of 'inappropriate behaviour' think they will get from it?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2013.

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• The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, People, Cruelty

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mind, Type, Concrete

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Storm, Shrinking, Conflict

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• Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

  Penn Jillette

  Lying, Nuts, People

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Team, Son

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

  Jay-Z

  Men, Fire, Ice Cream

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• Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Law, Drug

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• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Sports, 4th Of July, Airplane

  "Why Girls Should Create Video Games" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mom, Football, Games

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• I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

  Spike Lee

  Believe, Kids, Games

  "Q&A: Spike Lee on 'Oldboy,' Remakes, Atonement & 'Inside Man 2'". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Garbage Cans, Nuisance

  "E3 Interview: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Luxury, Roots

  "Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist groups". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, America, Citizens

  "CNN's Piers Morgan Battles with Ted Nugent on Guns, Says Second Amendment Almost Killed Gabby Giffords". www.newsbusters.org. May 19, 2011.

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• Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Educational, Home

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• Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

  Al Pacino

  Inspirational, Play, Scarface

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• Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

  Mandy Patinkin

  War, Violent Acts, East

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• By all measures men are the more violent gender.

  Steven Pinker

  Men, Gender

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