Violent Quotes - Page 2

Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

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.

Don't do anything that isn't play

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

It's hard to see blessings in a violent culture

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.