Violent Quotes - Page 6

• The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

  Gijs de Vries

  Majority, World, Radical

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• Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Violent Acts, Meditation

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• The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Military, Air, Order

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• I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.

  Cory Monteith

  Games, Play, Video

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

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• I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It's not really necessary; there's a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term 'Knives and Pens' to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.

  Andy Biersack

  Writing, Kids, Dark

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• All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

  Fisher Ames

  Simple, Men, Democracy

  Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered”, p.45

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• With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
  Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
  of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
  gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
  the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
  Ottoman Empire a century ago.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islamic, Civilization, Broken

  "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Tears, Growing

  "Beck: 'The Violent Left Is Coming To Our Streets' 'To Smash, To Tear Down, To Kill, To Bankrupt, To Destroy'". Values Voter Summit, www.mediamatters.org. October 08, 2011.

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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Writing, Life And Death

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.

  Jim Butcher

  Brother, Children, Jealous

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.16, Penguin

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• I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Noise, Fellowship, Spirit

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Letter of Marque (Vol. Book 12) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

  James Lee

  Moments, Used

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• Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.

  Reza Aslan

  Peace, Mean People, Religion

  "Reza Aslan: Maher's "Facile" Generalizations Of Islam The Definition Of Bigotry". CNN Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2014.

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• It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.

  Andre Vltchek

  Wings, House, Support

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• In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

  Sue Kaufman

  Women, Lying, Home

  Sue Kaufman (1974). “Falling Bodies”, Doubleday Books

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• I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

  Leymah Gbowee

  War, People, Water

  "Peace activist Leymah Gbowee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.

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• The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Communication, Technology, Race

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• The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

  Francis William Newman

  Powerful, Men, Instinct

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• I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

  Bruce Kent

  Optimistic, Men, Thinking

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• No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

  Jose Padilha

  Criminals, Violence, Wonder

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• We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

  Jose Padilha

  Criminals, Wonder, Cop

  "Jose Padilha Says ‘Elite Squad’ Sequel Is His Scorsese-Like Take On Cops & Politics In Brazil". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. September 28, 2011.

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• March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Country, Spring, Frustration

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• For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Government, Libertarian Party, Long

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• Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it was read by scientist and non- scientist alike, and it aroused violent controversy. Religious people disliked it because it appeared to dispense with God; scientists liked it because it seemed to solve the most important problem in the universe-the existence of living matter. In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it.

  Henry Lipson

  Religious, Book, People

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