Violent Quotes - Page 4

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film.

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.

Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!

Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.

Empathy before education.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

In my view, and in the view of a lot of intelligence experts, the terrorist threat that we face now has morphed significantly from the days of 9/11 to homegrown violent extremism. We have to be concerned and focused on homegrown violent extremism, countering violent extremism that exists within our borders.

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

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

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

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

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.