Violent Quotes - Page 4

• A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

  B. F. Skinner

  Sex, Children, Men

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• We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Balance, Swiftness

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• We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Mad, World

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• The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Vanity, Sometimes

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• Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

  Joseph Addison

  Parent, Lasts, Wonderful

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.139

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• ...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Names

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.131, 谷月社

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• Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Science, Earth, Revolution

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• In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Real, Expression, Attention

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• My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

  Kitty Kelley

  Happiness, Sadness, Men

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• One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Fighting, White, People

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• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  Sam Shepard

  Thinking, Culture, Heritage

  "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard’s New Velocity". Interview with Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2010.

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• I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

  Shannen Doherty

  People, Persons

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• I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

  Bob Brown

  Character, Violence, Resorts

  "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

  Edward Bond

  Writing, Negativity, Shapes

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black

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• The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

  Denis McDonough

  United States, Lines, Problem

  "Special Report's Contrasting Previews Of The King And Durbin Hearings On American Muslims" by Brian Powell, www.mediamatters.org. March 29, 2011.

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• So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

  Hugh Mackay

  Fall, Games, Media

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• I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

  Paget Brewster

  Knives, Bathroom, Broke

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• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  Bob Barr

  Beautiful, Country, Gun

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• That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

  Kurtis Blow

  Jobs, People, Inspire

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• They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Gun, Japan

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• I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

  Peter Berg

  Football, Character, Hockey

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• It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

  Tammy Baldwin

  People, Looks, Way

  "Openly-Gay Congresswoman Proposes New Marriage Act". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2011.

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• We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

  Tim Bishop

  Gang Members, Needs, Messages

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• What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.

  Eoin Colfer

  Book, People, Hook

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer". Interview with Jen Bowden, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  War, Men, Ideas

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