Violent Quotes - Page 23

• The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is going to make war on everything that hinders love, with his eyes blazing fire.

  Lou Engle

  Jesus, War, Eye

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• The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

  Denis McDonough

  United States, Lines, Problem

  "Special Report's Contrasting Previews Of The King And Durbin Hearings On American Muslims" by Brian Powell, www.mediamatters.org. March 29, 2011.

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• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Victory

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• [Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

  James McAvoy

  Believe, Scotland, Scottish

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• Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

  Neil Young

  Fighting, Night, Advice

  Song: Violent Side

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• I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

  Paloma Faith

  Men, Violent Man, My Own

  "Have a little Faith: Paloma reflects on her rise to stardom and her special night with Prince" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2012.

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• One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

  Eric Holder

  Impact, Dysfunction, Want

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• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  Kamala Harris

  Believe, Criminals, Serious

  "San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime". Interview with Kimberly Marteau Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

  Thomas Jane

  Issues, People, Violence

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• This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

  Lou Reed

  Revenge, Inward, Drink

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• My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

  Colin Quinn

  World, Facts, Responsible

  "Interview: Colin Quinn picture". www.askmen.com.

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• Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

  L. Neil Smith

  Summer, Men, Intelligent

  "Merchants of Fear". Speech to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

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• The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

  Gijs de Vries

  Majority, World, Radical

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• Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Violent Acts, Meditation

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• I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It's not really necessary; there's a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term 'Knives and Pens' to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.

  Andy Biersack

  Writing, Kids, Dark

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• All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

  Fisher Ames

  Simple, Men, Democracy

  Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered”, p.45

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• Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Tears, Growing

  "Beck: 'The Violent Left Is Coming To Our Streets' 'To Smash, To Tear Down, To Kill, To Bankrupt, To Destroy'". Values Voter Summit, www.mediamatters.org. October 08, 2011.

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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Writing, Life And Death

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.

  Reza Aslan

  Peace, Mean People, Religion

  "Reza Aslan: Maher's "Facile" Generalizations Of Islam The Definition Of Bigotry". CNN Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2014.

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• It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.

  Andre Vltchek

  Wings, House, Support

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• I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

  Leymah Gbowee

  War, People, Water

  "Peace activist Leymah Gbowee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.

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• The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

  Bruce Kent

  Optimistic, Men, Thinking

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• No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

  Jose Padilha

  Criminals, Violence, Wonder

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• March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Country, Spring, Frustration

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