Violent Quotes - Page 30

• Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Children, Other Worlds, Feelings

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1903.

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• This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just don't know how to deal with that right now. I don't even go to strip clubs no more. I don't know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I'm not an angel or anything. I'm still lascivious, periodically. I'm just looking for some balance in my life.

  Mike Tyson

  Angel, Men, Who I Am

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agency, Rights, Race

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• Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Government, Order

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• To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

  Michael Z. Williamson

  White, Racist, Half

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• I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

  John Marsden

  Attitude, Selfish, War

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

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• Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Used, Ends

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Past, Evil

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• ... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Understanding, Destruction, Threat

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• A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Jail, Self

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• A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

  B. F. Skinner

  Sex, Children, Men

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• We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Balance, Swiftness

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• We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Mad, World

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• The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Vanity, Sometimes

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• Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

  Joseph Addison

  Parent, Lasts, Wonderful

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.139

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• I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not scary people, they're just men who keep to themselves and have a hard time being social.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lonely, Hard Times, Men

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

  Margaret Drabble

  Scenery, Stimulants

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• There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

  Simon Critchley

  Religious, Disappointment, Two

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity

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• At home, Danes try to resolve their problems amicably so it's just surreal to see these violent pictures on TV. But as the prime minister, I can't be controlled by my emotions.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Home, Trying, Tvs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.

  Cathy Hughes

  Mother, Order, Violent Acts

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• The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Expeditions, Outrun

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.121, Classic Books Company

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• Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Storm

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Rude, Peaceful

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• Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.

  Philo

  Expression, Emotion

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