Violent Quotes - Page 15

• Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

  George Meredith

  Struggle, Men, Reflection

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4327, Library of Alexandria

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• You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Misery, Guts, Labor

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 27), 1975.

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• They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  People, Trying, Killers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Tony Robbins

  Personality, Intense, Driven

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.

  Woody Allen

  People, Tragedy, Hollywood

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Tree, Storm, Birch Trees

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.276, Taylor & Francis

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• The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Rivers, Bed, Streams

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.276, Taylor & Francis

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• Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.

  Learned Hand

  Passion, Men, Law

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hero, Guy, Environment

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, "Eye Appeal", p. 79-80, 1951.

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• My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

  Mark Twain

  Done, Interest, Dies

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That's a lie. I do read the responses--and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness.

  Anne Lamott

  Smart, Lying, Men

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• Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Thinking, Effort, Choices

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Men, Community

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Theatre, Passionate

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.122, Grove Press

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• I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

  Anthony Trollope

  Apology, Men, May

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister”, p.1682, e-artnow

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• Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

  Dwight Macdonald

  Struggle, May, Way

  "Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963" by Scott H. Bennett, Syracuse University Press, 2003.

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• The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sports, Chess, Torture

  "Transformation of the nerds: The modern chessplayer is a sleeker creature than the regressive slob of old. But can a game of such arcane difficulty really be glamorised into a global telly sport?" by Martin Amis, www.independent.co.uk. November 07, 1993.

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• Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Definition of victory which is really an important thing for the American people to understand is that we have an ally in the war on terror, that democracy is able to sustain itself and defend itself, and the Iraqi people feel that the security forces that we've trained up are capable of defending themselves against the violent.

  George W. Bush

  War, People, Victory

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• Some of these guys are so violent that it is hard for witnesses to come forward, and they get involved in repeat criminal activities, so it is unfortunate that they had to die, but it did kind of end the cycle that we were struggling with.

  Ray Nagin

  Struggle, Guy, Criminals

  "Mayor: Crime Part of New Orleans `Brand'". The Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com. August 10, 2007.

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• Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.

  Daniel Pipes

  Determination, Voice, Goal

  "Voices of Islam". New York Post, September 23, 2003.

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• There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.

  Irvine Welsh

  Too Much, Violence, Shagging

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.188, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.

  Erik Naggum

  New York, Cities, Names

  Re: How is perl braindamaged? (was Re: Is LISP dying?) (Usenet article), groups.google.com. July 28, 1999.

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• To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Artist, Creative, Desire

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• Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!

  Daniel Horan

  Selfish, Flower, Moon

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