Violent Quotes - Page 5

• I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

  Gina Carano

  Hurt, People, Persons

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• When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

  John Conyers

  Play, Civilian Deaths, Civilians

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• Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

  John Ensign

  Thinking, Lifting Weights, Skills

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• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, War, Men

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Criminals, Violent Criminals, Hesitation

  "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

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• I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

  Harold H. Greene

  Country, Thinking, Europe

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• Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Years, Age, Texture

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'". The Monday Interview with Andy McSmith, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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• The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

  Lou Reed

  Sports, Baby, Dad

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.296, Da Capo Press

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• [Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

  James McAvoy

  Believe, Scotland, Scottish

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• Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

  LL Cool J

  Art, Media, Taught

  Song: The Power of God, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out

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• Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

  Neil Young

  Fighting, Night, Advice

  Song: Violent Side

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• I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

  Paloma Faith

  Men, Violent Man, My Own

  "Have a little Faith: Paloma reflects on her rise to stardom and her special night with Prince" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2012.

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• I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

  Nancy Grace

  Wells, Courtroom, Prosecuting

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• Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  War, Reality, Men

  "Modern Gothic Master Seth Grahame-Smith Talks ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ ‘Dark Shadows’". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2012.

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• One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

  Eric Holder

  Impact, Dysfunction, Want

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• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  Kamala Harris

  Believe, Criminals, Serious

  "San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime". Interview with Kimberly Marteau Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

  Leila Josefowicz

  Dark, Light, Goal

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• It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

  Thomas Jane

  Issues, People, Violence

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• This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

  Lou Reed

  Revenge, Inward, Drink

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• For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Country, Warfare, Relentless

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.341, U of Nebraska Press

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• We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Community, Choices

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• I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

  Dennis Lehane

  Home, Kids, Catholic

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• My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

  Colin Quinn

  World, Facts, Responsible

  "Interview: Colin Quinn picture". www.askmen.com.

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• Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

  L. Neil Smith

  Summer, Men, Intelligent

  "Merchants of Fear". Speech to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

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• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dystopian Fiction, Culture, Escapism

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