Violent Quotes - Page 8

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes against the cultural grain of therapeutic smoothing so dominant in what we like to call 'cultural discourse'.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be a violent thing at all. A fatwa is simply a ruling on Islamic law; there can be fatwas on clothing.

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state.

Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.