Violent Quotes - Page 10

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Violent means will give violent freedom.

I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

No, tiny violent one.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.

President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

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.

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into a violent frenzy when threatened.

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.