Top 1200 Violent Crimes Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.
Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.
Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.
Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.
People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.
I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.
If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.
A proper criminal justice system exacts justice - that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.
No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.
Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.
'White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.
We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Domestic violent extremism is not a threat limited to any single law enforcement agency.
There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of tea.
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
If we are to change violent criminal acts across our state, we must work together.
Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.
I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.
I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.
When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.
I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
Anything against the state's interests, through a non-violent action, is susceptible to be considered sedition.
The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.
We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.
It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
I want to be clear that violent crime isn't just a St. Louis or Kansas City problem.
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
