Top 1200 Violent Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

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

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes

Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

I always wanted to be known as an actor who sings and not a singer who acts.

'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

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

Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

Racism in Brazil is well hidden, subtle, and unspoken, underestimated by the media. It is nevertheless extremely violent.

Number one, as an audience member, I tend to like violent movies and TV shows because it's not real.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

I'm opposed to legalizing marijuana because it acts as a gateway drug.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

My dad was a womaniser, a gambler. He was violent. They thought if they left Scotland, they would leave the problems behind.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

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.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

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.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

Radicalisation or the risk of children being drawn into non violent extremism is a very real threat in this country.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.