Violent Quotes - Page 14

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Rebellion, Destroyed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.147, Ravenio Books

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• Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

  Michel de Montaigne

  School, Mistress

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.206, Stanford University Press

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• Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Fire, Vanity

  1595 John of Gaunt, to Richard. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.31-4.

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• Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

  William Hazlitt

  Betrayal, Secret, Affinity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1179, Delphi Classics

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• Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Passion, Should, Disgusting

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Confidence, Landscape, Uncertain

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• Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Jesus, Simple

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• Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

  Michael Hardt

  Doe, Pharaohs, Revolution

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• But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.

  Hugh Mackay

  Children, Responsibility, Direct Effect

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• A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

  Greg Smith

  Majority, Downtown, Common

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• Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Thinking, Giving, Long

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

  Quincy Jones

  Kids, Dope, Years

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Crazy, Rome

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Thinking, Popcorn, Violence

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Needs, Tvs, Crusades

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• When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

  Caroline Lucas

  Direct Action, People, Peaceful

  "Caroline Lucas among dozens arrested in Balcombe anti-fracking protest" by Fiona Harvey, Peter Walker, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2013.

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• Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  Cancer, Heart, People

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Passion, Growth, Too Much

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• Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Vanity, Coquette

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• No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - —violent films. To me, seeing violence in a film makes me hate the violence. But there's beauty in violence if it's put over the right way.

  Jim Capaldi

  Hate, People, Violent Films

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

  Dean Koontz

  Anger, Emotion, Driven

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.1250, Bantam

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• 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.

  Albert Pike

  Degrees, Devastation, Destruction

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it.

  Doris Lessing

  Strong, War, People

  Doris Lessing (2013). “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”, p.10, Harper Collins

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