Violent Quotes - Page 5

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

No violent extreme endures.

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

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

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

Never do anything that isn't play.

The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

NO is always a YES to something else.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this.

Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

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

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.