Violent Quotes - Page 38

• Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

  Steven Pinker

  States

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• We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

  Steven Pinker

  Violence, World, Creatures

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• I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

  Steven Pinker

  Struggle, Thinking, Years

  "The Violent Dangers of Ideology". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. November 03, 2011.

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• A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

  Steven Pinker

  Government, Self, People

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• Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.

  Steven Pinker

  Party, Thug, Support

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• Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Scary, Muggers

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• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  Pat Robertson

  Government, Political, Islam

  700 Club, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

  Eli Roth

  Epic, Historical, Want

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• I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

  Mickey Rourke

  Feelings, Way, Shame

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  One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  Salman Rushdie

  Negative, Publicity, Strange

  "The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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• Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Violence, Christianity

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.org. August 1, 2005.

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• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  Salman Rushdie

  Self, People, Worried

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• All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

  John Ruskin

  Fake People, Judging, Feelings

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

  George Sand

  Writing, Obsession, Authorship

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• Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Anger, Passion

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Car, Racism, Tragedy

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• I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Television, Shows, Violent Movies

  "Anna Deavere Smith Talks Guns; Chris Brown Heads Back to Court; Major Policy Change Expands Gay Rights as Military Pay Raise Pulled Back; Woman Uses Obscene Gesture Towards Judge". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "In Essays, Author Zadie Smith Reveals Her Process". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.

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• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Assistants

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Rambo, Philanthropist

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• There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Sports, War, Opportunity

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• I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Pain, Gambling

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• Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Character, Dark

  Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

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• England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lasts, England, Revolutionary

  Leon Trotsky (1974). “Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain”

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